About Us

our objectives

The primary objective therefore for establishing AWLA isto promote networking among colleagues ( Professional Women Lawyers) to enhance the status of the African Woman Objectives

network

To strengthen networking among African Women Lawyers

info

To share information and lobby for gender parity in Africa through legislative reform, public education and advocacy

women's rights

To promote the principles and aims of the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity ( Now African Union) and the African Commission on Women and People’s Rights

legal status

To enhance the legal status of Women

rights of Children

To promote the rights of Children

access to justice

To enhance access to justice for women

End Abuse

To end abuse, discrimination and indignity to Women

enhance capacity

To enhance capacity of women

Empower and protect women

protect the girl child

To protect and empower the girl child

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who we are

The African Women Lawyers Association (AWLA) was founded in 1997 in Kenya. The Concept of this Association crystallize after an International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) networking meeting held in Accra, Ghana in 1996. At that forum it was realized that there was a need for African Women to network in order to address issues affecting women and children on the African Continent and to present a uniform voice articulating these peculiar concerns at the United Nations and other international fora. The primary objective therefore for establishing AWLA was to promote networking among colleagues ( Professional Women Lawyers) to enhance the status of the African Woman

what

WE are doing?

To realize our objectives, AWLA organizes the following activities

information sharing

The dissemination of laws affecting women in Africa through information sharing

promoting opportunities

Promoting opportunities for Women in all fields of public life, including politics, the civil service, the educational sector, industry, business and the professions, particularly the legal profession with emphasis on lobbying governments to provide special measures to achieve this aim

women's rights

Promoting equal rights of women under the human rights laws

advocacy

Advocating for legislation removing all forms of discrimination against women and guarantee women’s equality on issues such as:

Domestic Violence
Property rights of spouses
Dehumanising cultural practices like female genital Mutilation and early marriage
Trafficking of women
Any other gender- based discriminatory practices that affect the socio-economic development of women and girls