African Charter on Family Values Condemned by Rights Groups
A draft African treaty, which claims sexual and reproductive health and rights threaten the African family, has moved closer to becoming policy, drawing condemnation from human rights groups as regressive and dangerous.
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‘Family values’ African charter condemned by rights groups as regressive and dangerous
Draft treaty claims sexual and reproductive health and rights are an existential threat to the African family An African treaty that rejects longstanding international human rights obligations moved a step closer to becoming policy this week as governments across the continent met in Ghana. The draft African charter on family, sovereignty and values, seen by the Guardian, asserts that African values and culture are under attack from “foreign ideologies” and urges states to withdraw from any a...
By Isabel Choat
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South Africa has announced its abstention from the adoption of the African Charter on Family, Sovereignty and Values at the 4th Inter-Parliamentary Conference currently underway in Accra, Ghana. According to the South African delegation, the Charter’s definition of marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman is inconsistent with the country’s Constitution and the […]
By Kenneth Darko
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