BAOBAB’s mission is “to promote women’s human rights principally via improving knowledge, exercise and development of rights under religious laws, customary laws and statutory laws.” Their objectives include:
- to promote knowledge, development and exercise of women’s rights
- to protect and defend the rights of women
- to raise awareness of women’s human rights, abuse of these rights and other legal issues as they affect women, with a view to determining policies which can best promote all human rights
- further the construction of truly universal and relevant human rights
- support and strengthen women’s and other human rights focused organizations and individual activists
