(2) Effective environmental partnership (3) Collaboration with other sectors of Government (c) Improving efforts to control environmental degradation (1) Efforts to control desertification and land degradation; (2) Managing biodiversity (3) Wildlife management (4) Developing forest management (5) Rational management of chemical products (6) Controlling coastal erosion (d) Building institutional and technical capacity of stakeholders C. THE SPECIAL CASE OF PROTECTING WOMEN’S RIGHTS (Articles 2, 3, 14, 15, 16 and 18 of the African Charter and the provisions of the Protocol on the rights of women in Africa) (a) Positive development of the regulatory framework: (1) Improvement of the status of women in the 2001 Constitution: (2) Efforts made to harmonize national legislation with international commitments (b) New policies initiated by the Government to strengthen women’s rights (c) Future battles for universal equality in Senegal (1) Legal perspective (2) Economic, social and cultural perspectives Conclusion ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS AND INITIALS ASDIC – Senegalese Community Initiatives Development Association; ANEJ – National Youth Employment Agency ANRAC – National Agency for the Revitalization of Economic and Social Activities in Casamance APJ - Criminal Police Officers ARTP –Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority ARV – Antiretroviral Drugs ILO – International Labour Organisation HRC - Human Rights Council ECOWAS – Economic Community of West African States CENA – Independent National Electoral Commission CEPS – Study, Planning and Monitoring Unit CES – Ecological Monitoring Centre African Charter – African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights CIJ – International Court of Justice CNLS – National AIDS Control Council CORED – Ethical Standards Compliance Council African Commission – African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. 3