| Major group affiliation: |
- Women
- Non-governmental organization
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| Involvement in UN Partnerships: |
Yes |
| If yes, explain in detail: |
Since 2000, FEMNET has engaged and mobilized African women and gorls to participate in the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women to contribute and share information, experiences and strategies on the gender equality and women's empowerment agenda. |
| Affiliation with other organizations: |
NGO CSW/Africa, UN Women's Major Groups, Solidarity for African Women's Network (SOAWR) |
| Publications: |
FEMNET publications are available here: http://femnet.org/resources/ |
| Affiliation with other organizations: |
NGO CSW/Africa, UN Women's Major Groups, Solidarity for African Women's Network (SOAWR) |
| Publications: |
FEMNET publications are available here: http://femnet.org/resources/ |
| Purpose of the organization: |
Since inception in 1988, FEMNET has played a leading role in building the women’s movement in Africa and ensuring that women and girls’ voices are amplified, and their needs, priorities, and aspirations are prioritized in key policy dialogues and outcomes that have direct and indirect impact on their lives. FEMNET has established her niche as a nucleus serving to mobilize African women and girls to influence, lobby and advocate for the domestication and implementation of commitments made by African governments to the advancement of gender equality and realization of women’s rights. Such commitments include the global and continental declarations on gender equality and women’s rights that African governments are signatories to such as the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women and Girls (CEDAW), Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), ICPD Programme of Action, and Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development (SDGs) at the global level and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) at the regional level. |
| Confirmation of the activities of the organization at the regional, national or international level: |
FEMNET activities are available here www.femnet.org |
| A list of members of the governing body of the organization, and their countries of nationality: |
FEMNET list of Board memebrs is available here: http://femnet.org/about/#1446824628312-34626c2a-0475 |
| Description of the membership of the organization, indicating the total number of members: |
FEMNET is a Regional Pan-African Network of women's rights organizations. Currently, FEMNET has over 600 members (individual and organizational) in 46 African countries. |
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