The Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen on Wednesday led a high-level women delegation to submit a memoranda listing demands for affirmative action to the All Progressives Congress (APC) Constitution Review Committee.The memoranda was received by the Chairman of the APC Constitution Review Committee, Prof. Tahir Mamman, SAN at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.The Women Affairs Minister was accompanied by the United Nations Country Representative, Comfort Lamptey; Chair, House Committee on Electoral Matters, Hon. Aisha Dukku; representative of the 100 Women Lobby Group and other Civil Society Organisations.Some of the demands by the women include: Establishment of a system of gender mainstreaming to incorporate the policy of 40 % women representation in party organs, commitment to non-discrimination against and persons with disabilities in the party; Strengthening the office of the Women Leader to serve as the focal point for implementation of gender issues within the party; adequate and guaranteed access to funding, human and technical resources to carry out the responsibilities of the office and devoting at least 15% of the party’s annual budget of the party to the delivery of increased participation of women. Others are: taking conscious action in party structures and elections so as to ensure that no gender constitutes more than 60% from the ward to the national level; ensuring that no gender constitutes more than 60% of delegates and candidates in the final list after primaries and to enact a Gender Equity Act and a Party Act specifying that no gender should make up more than 60% of party structures and decision-making bodies.
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