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On the International Day of Families, we call out the continuous weaponisation of "family" in Africa❗️
A coordinated push is underway to narrow the definition of family down to a western, heteronormative, capitalist model; a husband, a wife, and their children. The Draft African Charter on Family, Sovereignty and Values is the latest and most dangerous example of this.
This Charter, and laws like it, are what is un-African.
African families have always been about communities and villages; strangers from the same village are cousins. Extended households led by grandmothers. Children raised together by the community 🌼🌻
African kinship was never just married people. It is always about people choosing each other.
Real family policy looks like safety, healthcare, care systems, and legal recognition, for every family, in every form they've always taken here ✊🏾
12/05/2026
📣Side Event Alert
Join our colleague Robert Amoafo, alongside an incredible panel and moderator, for a 90-minute interactive roundtable on context-relevant practices that have helped safeguard women’s rights and advance gender equality across the continent.
The session will highlight practical experiences from both state and non-state actors and explore how progress can be sustained, even in challenging times.
📍Join online: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2HyjvGjWRLmn1joqOwYjUw #/registration
11/05/2026
Rejoignez CHEVS et ses partenaires lors de notre événement parallèle à l’occasion de la 87e Session de la CADHP (Commission Africaine des Droits de l’Homme et des Peuples) en Gambie ✨
Le projet de Charte africaine sur la famille, la souveraineté et les valeurs menace la justice de genre, l’autonomie corporelle, l’égalité, la redevabilité ainsi que la protection des droits humains à travers le continent.
Rejoignez-nous pour réfléchir et échanger sur l’avenir de l’architecture africaine des droits humains à travers une perspective féministe, q***r et centrée sur la justice.
📍 Participation en présentiel : Inscrivez-vous ici
https://lnkd.in/ec54VWN2
💻 Participation en ligne : Inscrivez-vous ici
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07/05/2026
🧵Transnational corporations and foreign governments are operating across the continent with unprecedented influence, too often with the cooperation of our own states under the guise of sovereignty.
This modern neo-colonialism includes disinformation campaigns backed by external actors targeting LGBTQI+ people and other marginalized communities.
CHEVS documents and exposes the ideological and financial networks driving anti-rights movements, and convenes movements to reclaim our narratives and disrupt their legitimacy.
Learn more about CHEVS' work: https://www.chevs.org/rights-and-democracy
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