Article 11 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Right...

Article 11 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa — the Maputo Protocol — calls on State parties to ‘protect asylum-seeking women, refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons against all forms of violence, rape and other forms of sexual exploitation, and to ensure that such acts are considered war crimes, genocide and/or crimes against humanity and that their perpetrators are brought to justice before a competent criminal jurisdiction'.