Member states at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are poised to adopt an “African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls.”
Its goal is laudable, but as the African Bar Association has revealed, a number of the provisions of the draft treaty reflect an entirely different purpose: radical gender ideology.
To protect women from violence and from this toxic imperialism of “queer” activism, the African Union should postpone adoption of the treaty until these provisions can be worked out.
The worst provisions bear the fingerprints of Western gender ideologues and abortion activists so common in international documents, agencies, and nongovernmental organizations.
The draft treaty avoids obvious “LGBTQ” terms that might alarm conservative African states, but the language opens the door to “transformative” sexual…
