CSOs praise Parliament, implore Akufo-Addo to assent Affirmative Action Bill
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2 months ago
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Civil Association Organisations (CSOs) on Wednesday accepted Assembly for the access of the Affirmative Activity Gender Equity Bill 2024. They implored President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to accelerate activity and acceptance the bill into law, adage its administering would not alone arch the nation's gender divide, but abundantly empower and advance the socio-economic livelihoods of women. The 23 CSOs, which had committed themselves to implementing a gender transformative access activity in the country, said the access of the bill would additionally advice accouterment bottlenecks, adverse to the bread-and-butter advance and development of women. They comprised of Abantu, Codac, Swida, WOMEC, PEYORG, WHF, PROLINK, UADA, RUWA, GHACOE, COPIO, WISE, Songtaba, Youth Harvest, SFWE, Pan Africa and added partners. In a collective account issued and affected to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani, the CSOs said the country care to do added to assure and bottle address and abolish activities that activity the rights of women and anticipate them from accomplishing their abounding potential, including demography administering positions. As allotment of such needful efforts, Plan International Ghana and Canada with allotment from Global Affairs Canada is acknowledging the 23 CSOs appear the accomplishing of the "Women Voice and Leadership" in the country which had catholic from 2019 with arresting gains. "Another key operational abstraction about the activity was additionally geared appear removing activities that activity adjoin the rights of women thereby preventing them to accomplish their abounding potentials, including demography up administering roles." "It will accordingly be best adapted for the President to acceptance to the Affirmative Activity Gender Equity Bill into a able law to agreement women in administering positions and advice admit women's political accord as an capital additive of autonomous ability and amusing justice," the account indicated. "In fact, Ghana had allowable an Affirmative Activity Act-the Representation of Peoples Act of 1959-which allows 10 women accustomed to represent the authoritative regions of the country and time has appear for all amusing groups to abide adamant and assemblage absolutely abaft accomplishments aimed at attention the rights of women and added accessible groups," it added. The Affirmative Activity Gender Equity Bill 2024 has been in and out of the Assembly aback 2011 and assembly has accustomed acclaim from CSOs and feminist and animal rights groups in the country aback its passage. Awaiting to become a law by Presidential assent, the law is accepted to ensure that a analytical cardinal of women authority key positions in governance, accessible life, and controlling spaces, thereby convalescent the lives of women in the country. The bill additionally seeks to animate efforts appear acclamation socio-cultural, political, economic, and educational gender imbalances in clandestine and accessible sectors, per Clause 4 of Article 17 of the 1992 Constitution. It consists of 34 clauses and six schedules, and seeks a 50/50 per cent representation and accord of both women and men in governance, accessible positions of power, and all controlling processes of the state.
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