Namibia PM Laments Low Positions of Women
- By solomon2day
- On 03/08/2019
- In News
Prime Minister of Namibia Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has decried the low positions of women in paid employment in the country.
Kuugongelwa- Amadhila made this position known on Friday at the Namibia Women in Engineering Annual Conference in Ongwediva.
"Women remain at the lowest level of employment and struggle with practical impediments that limit their economic independence and self-sufficiency," the Prime Minister stated.
She lamented that Namibia was a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw), the Beijing Platform for Action (1995), the Cedaw Optional Protocol (2000) and the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Declaration on Gender and Development (2005),while noting that the aim of all these laws, conventions and protocols was to ensure that women have equal opportunities to their male counterparts.
The Prime Minister,however, wondered that despite all these effortslegal equality was yet transform into structural equality.
Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila Women Namibia