Nepal: Women participation in state affairs stressed

August 14, 2008 – (The Rising Nepal) Vice-Chairperson of Spanish Communist Party and Parliamentarian, Emarira has said that she would recommend to her government back home to support the capacity building and empowerment of women in Nepal.

Speaking at an interaction between Spanish women parliamentarians and Nepali women members of the Constituent Assembly here Wednesday, she expressed happiness over the 33 per cent representation of women through the CA elections, and stressed on the need to ensure mandatory participation of women in every sector of the state.

Sharing the situation of women in Spain, she said the Government has made 30 per cent recruitment of women police mandatory, 20 per cent in the army, four months of leave for lactating mothers and special tax exemption or companies giving highest priority to women’s participation.

On the occasion, CA member Sita Poudel said through women have been enjoying greater rights today they were still deprived of proper opportunity, status and respect by the state.

Kalpana Bayalkoti, the widow of martyr Chandra Bayalkoti complained over the ignorance on part of the state in recognizing the contribution of the martyrs and supporting their families.

Similarly in Lalitpur, Members of the Constituent Assembly representing various political parties have expressed the commitment to include issues related to the youth in the new constitution.

Speaking at a programme organized by Human Rights Radio Listeners’ Club National Committee here Wednesday to shed light about its new one-year campaign on "Youth forum for constitution making", the CA members expressed the commitment to set up a youth ministry and enforce a youth policy, guarantee youth participation in every level of the society, include employment as fundamental rights in the constitution, establish a bank for youths and working on the reintegration of the youth who are involved or effected by the conflict.

Expressing their commitment on the occasion were CA members Dhanraj Gurung, Shambhu Hajara Paswan, Ramkrishna Chitrakar, Bhanubhakta Jaisi, Eknath Dhakal, Ganga Parajuli, Renu Chand among others.

The CA members also signed a letter of commitment on the occasion.

On the occasion, the Listeners’ Club announced 28 people including human rights workers, media persons, political leaders, youth leaders, MPs and former Miss Nepal as Youth Ambassadors.

The youth forum will bring together villagers to discuss on their issues and make an effort to have them represented in the new constitution.

From:http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/detail.php?article_id=4957&cat_id=8