The development of the African Union Campaign and negotiation of an AU Convention on Ending Violence against Women and Girls; the full implementation of the African Union guidelines on the Gender Responsive Responses to COVID-19; the universal ratification, domestication and implementation of the Maputo Protocol on Women's Rights; the approval to disseminate the AU Strategy on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment and the development of a 10 year continental AU Strategy and Action Plan on Women's Financial and Economic Inclusion of the African Women's Decade 2020-2030, are among the key outcomes of the Ministerial segment of the 5th Ordinary Session of the African Union Specialised Technical Committee on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (STC on GEWE).
Convened on 27 November 2020 during the 16 Days of Activism Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence under the facilitation of the African Union Commission's Women, Gender and Development Directorate (AUC-WGDD), AU the Ministers in charge of Gender and Women's Affairs considered and adopted far-reaching decisions that will protect and promote women's rights on the continent including the approval to disseminate the revised AU Strategy on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, which was adopted by the AU Assembly in its mid-term Summit in Nouakchott in 2018.
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