Women Enabled International accountABILITY Toolkit: African Regional Human Rights System – Advocacy Guide

The accountABILITY Toolkit on the African Regional Human Rights System is dedicated to the millions of women and girls with disabilities in Africa and around the world who routinely encounter multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. This Toolkit is a call to action, urging and empowering us to collectively raise our voices to demand that international and regional human rights standards protect the rights of all women and girls, including those with disabilities.

This Toolkit seeks to empower women with disabilities and organizations working on their behalf to make use of the available African human rights mechanisms to ensure that the human rights violations women with disabilities experience receive redress and to make sure that statements, recommendations, observations, and guidance from the African human rights system incorporate an intersectional gender and disability rights perspective. Volume 1 of this Toolkit provides an overview of the African human rights system. Including the mechanisms available to women with disabilities to input into this system. Volume 2 provides a summary of the jurisprudence of the African human rights system to date on issues that impact rights at the intersection of gender and disability.