Press Release: Women and Governance in Sudan?

 

 

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

The Hague, 13th March 2010

Women and Governance in Sudan

“25% quota granted for Sudanese future Women Parliamentarians will help Sudan get its National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325”, hopes Mekka Abdelgabar

 

 

While elections are underway in Sudan and people are casting their vote in the first elections in more than 25 years, the electoral participation of people reassures trust in democratic institutions and paves the ways to bring security, peace and development for the people in Sudan.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     As Sudanese women are granted a quota of 25 percent representation, long cues of thousands of women in front of voting centers are witnessed by observers at country wide polling stations.

 Mekka Abdelgabar, chair of The Darfur Women Foundation in The Netherlands (Stichting Vrouwenorganisatie Nederland-Darfur; VOND) says:

 “We are positive that the women in Sudan will have a chance to acquire more than 25 percent of the parliamentary seats. Indeed this will allow them to participate in the political process; however important question remains to be asked at what positions then?

 Will they be given 25% ministerial positions as well? I do not think so. Continues Ms. Abdelgabar while talking to Gender Concerns International at a special analysis session held in the Hague, on Gender and Sudan Elections. She adds further, “that the women’s movement in Sudan has now the difficult task ahead to negotiate for an agreeable allocation of ministerial positions in Future Sudanese Government.  

Darfurian Women Foundation is committed to help the women in Sudan in their efforts to formulate a National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325. We hope that dawn of new democratic era will bring peace, security and development to women, men and children of Sudan.

 

 

 

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