African Union When assessing the Standards and Codes, the respondent should only assess those elements of the standards and codes that relate to Broad-based sustainable socio-economic development. The other elements of the standards and codes will be dealt with under the other thematic areas such as Corporate Governance. The Standards and codes for the SED thematic area are the following: Standards and codes that need signing and/or ratification Standards and codes Adopted/ signed (include date) Ratified Enacted Date last Reservations/ reported Notes United Nations Organization (UNO), Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons (1975, New York, USA) United Nations Organization (UNO), Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (1979, New York, USA) Right to development in the African Charter on Human and Peoples‟ Rights (1981) including the protocol on the Right of Women in Africa United Nations Organization (UNO), Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989, New York, USA) OAU, African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Kyoto Protocol on the UN Convention Framework on Climate Change (1997, Kyoto – Japan) Constitutive Act of the African Union (2000, Lome, Togo) Organization of African Unity (OAU), New Partnership for Africa‟s Development (NEPAD), (2001, Abuja, Nigeria) African Union (AU), Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People‟s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2003, Maputo, Mozambique) African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (2003, Maputo, Mozambique) 71