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Addis Ababa Declaration on Accelerating the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action: Declaration issued by African government ministers responsible for gender and women’s affairs. The declaration calls on states to “expand the provision of family planning services and contraceptives and access to safe and legal abortion services in accordance with national laws and policies, and protect the reproductive rights of women by authorizing medical abortion in the case of sexual assault, rape, incest, in line with the Maputo Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.”