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...

Every day, 137 women around the world are killed by a family member. 52 of those killings take place in Africa alone. Ousmane Diagana, Vice President of the World Bank for Western and Central Africa, reflects on Gender Based Violence and how we can protect and empower girls and women in West and Central Africa....