Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa

Article 10 Right to Peace / Paragraph 2.c

• Paragraph 1
  Women have the right to a peaceful existence and the right to participate in the promotion and maintenance of peace.


• Paragraph 2
  States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure the increased participation of women:
• Point a
  in programmes of education for peace and a culture of peace;


• Point b
  in the structures and processes for conflict prevention, management and resolution at local, national, regional, continental and international levels;


• Point c
  in the local, national, regional, continental and international decision making structures to ensure physical, psychological, social and legal protection of asylum seekers, refugees, returnees and displaced persons, in particular women;


• Point d
  in all levels of the structures established for the management of camps and settlements for asylum seekers, refugees, returnees and displaced persons, in particular, women;


• Point e
  in all aspects of planning, formulation and implementation of post conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation.
• Paragraph 3
  States Parties shall take the necessary measures to reduce military expenditure significantly in favour of spending on social development in general, and the promotion of women in particular.