The ECOWAS Parliament's Joint Committee on Gender, Employment and Social Welfare and the Committee on Health and Social Service on Tuesday commenced a five-day sitting at the Senegambia Beach Hotel in Banjul where they will dilate on the "Validation of the Ecowas Parliament Gender Strategy".
The meeting is expected to also consider and update its draft gender strategy, submitted to it by a resource centre, the Canadian Parliamentary Centre in 2010, which it had hitherto, considered in a couple of its sitting but could not get the plenary to adopt due to certain constraints.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Hon. Abdoulie Suku Singhateh, head of the Gambian delegation at the Ecowas Parliament acknowledged the role of the Gambian leader in championing the issue of gender equality and equity and also for being a firm believer and advocate of universal women rights.
Read the complete story at All Africa, published 8 August 2012.
The ECOWAS Parliament's Joint Committee on Gender, Employment and Social Welfare and the Committee on Health and Social Service on Tuesday commenced a five-day sitting at the Senegambia Beach Hotel in Banjul where they will dilate on the "Validation of the Ecowas Parliament Gender Strategy".
The meeting is expected to also consider and update its draft gender strategy, submitted to it by a resource centre, the Canadian Parliamentary Centre in 2010, which it had hitherto, considered in a couple of its sitting but could not get the plenary to adopt due to certain constraints.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Hon. Abdoulie Suku Singhateh, head of the Gambian delegation at the Ecowas Parliament acknowledged the role of the Gambian leader in championing the issue of gender equality and equity and also for being a firm believer and advocate of universal women rights.
Read the complete story at All Africa, published 8 August 2012.