Women demand gender balance in CA top posts

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Gender parity requires more women in elective posts - Makinda
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National Assembly Speaker Anna Makinda has advised women MPs participating in the Constituent Assembly (CA) to jointly shout and push for agendas in the assembly to ensure inclusion of crucial women aspects in the constitution. Makinda made the ...
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In my opinion, gender should not be the only criteria. If we are trying to bring in gender equality, then candidates have to contest and not be given posts based on their gender.

Tanzania gender balance goal ‘on track’  The Citizen Daily

>Demands for gender parity in the country took a new dimension in the ongoing Constituent Assembly (CA) Sitting here last week.

Consideration of gender equality in the formation of a new cabinet must be upheld, activists have urged.

Activists demand gender equality in new cabinet
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Human Rights' activists have called upon President John Magufuli to be gender sensitive when appointing his cabinet. Speaking at a press conference yesterday in Dar es Salaam, chairman of the Feminist Activist Coalition (FemAct), Abdullah Othman said ...

Poverty shuts women out of political posts
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AS the 2015 general elections get closer, women groups in Zanzibar have called for 'an election free of corruption' to enable both the wealthy and the majority poor women to participate. “We want to elect and to be elected on merit and not basing on the ...

Magufuli pledges more senior posts for women
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CCM Union presidential candidate John Magufuli has said he was committed and determined to empower the women to scale to higher ranks in his government if elected to the country's highest office – the State House. Addressing thousands of Chato ...

Guinea’s prime minister officially formed his new cabinet on Monday, handing key roles to women as the poverty-stricken country looks to kickstart an economic recovery and improve the lives of young people.