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Women and the Constitution alert
Women's Coalition
of Zimbabwe
September 07, 2010
COPAC Constitutional
Outreach will be in Harare and Bulawayo on the 18th and 19th of
September 2010.
Why
should women participate actively
Members are encouraged
to attend and participate effectively in the outreach meetings to
ensure that women's rights issues come out strongly in the
draft Constitution. This will be the final push for women to make
an input into this process.
COPAC statistics reveal
that although women attending outreach meetings total 38 percent
compared to men at 42 percent, women did not participate actively
by speaking out at meetings.
On average,
women account for a small only 14.6% ONLY of the speakers at Outreach
meetings. This means that our issues have not been articulated adequately.
Our sole chance is Harare and Bulawayo.
What
should women do?
Women should Attend and
participate actively in the Outreach meetings in Harare and Bulawayo.
Activists should encourage
their constituencies to go out in their numbers and speak around
women's rights in the Constitution.
Organisations
should distribute the Summarised
Women's Charter and the Talking
Points widely to their constituencies in Harare and Bulawayo.
Copies are available from WCoZ offices.
The COPAC Talking
points that can be downloaded from the COPAC
website
We are encouraging you
to reach out to the surbarbs where you have traditionally worked
and has a constituency. Sit down with the women and make sure that
they speak from beginning to the end of the meeting. We need all
our issues in the constitution.
Women with access to
the Internet are encouraged to register on the COPAC website and
make their submissions online. You have the documents already, please
submit them.
The WCoZ will continue
to update members as more information becomes available.
Visit the Women's
Coalition fact
sheet
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