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YOWLI Magazine

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The African Women Mobilizing Initiative on Impoverishment and Human Rights(AWOMI), based in Dakar, Senegal, was launched in May 2005 in Limuru, Kenya.AWOMI's establishment was triggered by the fact that women’s impoverishment andthe burden they carry to sustain social welfare continues to worsen despite Govern-ments signing of numerous international legal instruments including the Conventionon the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1979; the 1995 Bei- jing Platform for Action; the 1997 SADC Declaration on Gender and Development; theAfrican Union (AU) Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa; and the AU Ad-ditional Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rightsof Women in Africa (ACHPR). AWOMI also recognizes that an African women'sagenda proposing alternative economic policies centered on human rights is seriouslylacking and requires urgent attention. AWOMI’s goal is to fill this gap through evi-dence gathering, economic education, youth empowerment, accountability trackingand policy advocacy.

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AWDF.0268

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