PRESS STATEMENTNGOCC DISSAPPOINTED WITH POLITICAL PARTIES FOR NOT ADOPTING WOMEN IN THE KABWATA BY ELECTIONThe Non-governmental Gender Organisations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) wishes to register our disappointment with the choice political parties have made NOT to adopt women to participate in the Kabwata by election slated for January 20th 2022.As the women’s movement, we are extremely concerned by the lack of commitment by the political parties to enhance women’s participation in politics and ultimately decision-making positions.NGOCC has noted with sadness that all the participating political parties have adopted men to the exclusion of women.We are particularly disappointed with the United Party for National Development (UPND), as the governing party for not leading by example.The numbers of women elected at local Government and Parliamentary levels after the August 2021 elections remain unacceptably low.It was therefore our hope that the political parties would take advantage of these by elections to redress the gender inequalities in these decision-making spaces.It […]
NGOCC DISSAPOINTED WITH POLITICAL PARTIES FOR NOT ADOPTING WOMEN IN THE KABWATA BY ELECTION
