By Xinhua,
Kathmandu : Women members of Nepali Constituent Assembly (CA) have demanded that women CA members be allowed to chair 50 percent of all the CA-related committees and parliamentary committees to ensure gender balance in constitutional making process.
According to Saturday’s The Himalayan Times daily, there are 14CA-related committees and 10 parliamentary committees in the CA cum legislature-parliament. Elections of all the committees are scheduled for January 9.
The women CA members came up with this demand in a meeting of all the 197 women members representing different parties in the CA on Friday.
They underscored the need to form a caucus of all the women CA members to evolve a common stance on gender equality and issues to be incorporated in the new constitution.
They also demanded proportional representation of women CA members in all the committees.