Womens Economic Rights> Re: press release

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Quoting jumoke olatunbosun <jummyolas@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I am sending this press release for your perusal this
> is in accordance with the panel set-up by the 
> Nigerian president:
> 
> PRESS RELEASE
> 
> CLO CALLS FOR A REVIEW OF PANEL MEMBERS ON NATIONAL
> SECURITY AND NATIONAL POPULATION COMMISSIONS.
> 
> The Women Rights Project (WRP) of Civil Liberties
> Organisation (CLO) strongly condemns the membership
> composition of the panels on National Security and
> National Population Commission, which were inaugurated
> by President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday, October
> 31, 2001.
> 
> We condemn the inadequate and non-inclusion of women
> in both panels. While the first panel, on National
> Security consists of 14 members only two of these are
> women and the second, on National Population
> Commission, which is a 33-member panel, has no female
> representation. 
> 
> This is not in accordance with the provisions of the
> 1999 Constitution and Convention on the Elimination of
> All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW),
> which prohibit discrimination against women, on the
> basis of their gender or other considerations. It also
> violates the decisions arrived at, at the 1995 Beijing
> Platform for Action on the inclusion of women in
> decision-making and governance process (i.e. 30% seat
> reservation for women).
> 
> In as much as the Federal Government has a
> responsibility to ensuring federal character, it also
> has to ensure adequate gender representation in all
> its decisions and policies.
> 
> The CLO calls on the Federal Government to be more
> gender-aware and sensitive in its policies and
> decisions because women and children are most affected
> by such policies and decisions, which unfortunately do
> not take them into consideration.
> 
> We therefore call other Women's Rights groups to take
> up this challenge by not allowing the Federal
> Government get away with this act because it is an
> attempt at further marginalizing women, an act which
> must be protested against and strongly resisted.
> 
> The CLO therefore urges President Olusegun Obasanjo to
> review the composition of these panels and make
> necessary adjustments towards ensuring more female
> representation and participation. We advise the
> Federal Government to reconstitute the committee by
> appointing more women to the panel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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