Departments
Health, Humanitarian Affairs & Social Development (HHS)
Commissioner
H.E. Amira El Fadil, born on 15 January 1967, a Sudanese woman was elected Commissioner for Social Affairs of the African Union Commission. She was Minister of Social Welfare and Social Insurance for the Government of Sudan.
Structure
The Department of Social Affairs (DSA) works to promote the AU’s health, labour, employment, migration, social development, drug control, crime prevention, sport and cultural agenda.
The Division plays a leading role in policy development, advocacy, coordination, monitoring and evaluation on AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and other infectious diseases.
The Division responds to vital generic health issues related to health policy and delivery systems, nutrition and other related public health issues and challenges that require a concerted and coordinated approach at a continental level.
The division of labour and employment focuses on the rights, labour standards, integrated employment policies and social security systems.
The Division works with Member States and development partners to create and strengthen social protection systems that aims at reducing social and economic risk and vulnerability.
Activities
The African Union condemns in the strongest terms possible, Denmark’s Aliens Act, which was passed recently and which
The 7th Meeting of the Technical and Advisory Committee of the Great Museum of Africa (GMA) was held virtually on the 06 July 2021.
The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights represents an exercise of African agency in defining the essence and meaning of the rights that give full expression to Africa’s long struggle and aspirations for dignity, freedom, equality and justice.
In June 2020, the African Union and UNICEF launched the No Name Campaign, an initiative aimed at promoting the right for every child in Africa to a legal identity, and therefore to justice.
Within the framework of the AU-EU Continent-to-Continent Migration and Mobility Dialogue, the African Union Commissio
Media
Department Resources
October 15, 2020
The Africa Migration Report takes a distinctly regional approach to inform knowledge on migration in Africa.
September 08, 2020
Department of Social Affairs Newsletter