WRRC Contacts: Africa

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In addition to teaching and research, the African Gender Institute has several projects running that complement the teaching of GWS in tertiary institutions throughout the African continent. Some of Institutes’ projects include the publication of the only continental and Afrocentric bi-annual...

An organisation established to provide legal aid to women and paralegal training program for community leaders. Mutawinat also runs literacy, human rights, and legal rights awareness campaigns; fosters communication between women’s groups in Africa; works to eradicate FGM by developing and...

Address: BP E 1543, Bamako

Tel/fax: (+223)-2-29 58 95

Contact: Mme Sidibé Kadidia Maiga Aoudou

APROFES works to promote women’s rights; women’s access to resources; women’s participation in decision-making; poverty reduction; and fight violence against women within the framework of women’s rights as human rights. They work with local women’s groups, women’s victims of violence, and women...

Address: BP 1740, Bamako

Tel/fax (+223)-2- 29 10 28 (office)

Contact: Mme Fatoumata Siré Diakite

BAOBAB For Women's Human Rights is a not for profit, non-governmental women's human rights organization, which focuses on women's legal rights issues under the three (3) systems of law - customary, statutory and religious laws in Nigeria. The organization evolved from an ad hoc group of activists,...

A women’s human rights organization that focuses on women’s legal rights issues under the three (3) systems of law – customary, statutory and religious laws in Nigeria. The organization evolved from an ad hoc group of activists, social scientists, lawyers, and specialists in Muslim laws and...

Address: 01 BP 538, Porto-Novo

Tel: (+229)-20 22 32 04; (+229)-97 98 07 93

Fax: (+229)-21 25 25

Contact person: Mme Victorine Odounlami

Address: BP 3772, Nouakchott

Tel. (+222)-525 38 60; (+222)-525 71 89 (direct line)

Fax: (+222)-525 13 85

Contact: Mme Mariame Baba Sy

Address: BP 174, Cidex 03, Abidjan 08

Tel: (+225)-22 40 59 95/05 95 43 75

Fax: (+225)-20 32 26 22/22 40 59 97

Contact: El Hadj Cissé Djiguiba, Vice-President