Some of the issues women expect the Education Service commission to respond to
are:
a. Increase women participation in education decision making positions and ensure
that there is equity in recruiting and promotional issues of teachers
b. Address the infrastructure and facilities in the education centres. Currently these are
prohibitive to women. Accommodation and sanitation are some areas of focus in this
instance.
7. Women also propose that a Public Health Commission be set up.This commission
will is tasked with focusing and intervening on the following women specific health
issues:
(a) Facilitation of the delivery of quality health service particularly to the underprivileged women from a gender perspective.
(b) The commission must focus on women’s rights to reproduction and sexual health,
that is, women should have access to health whatever their status in society.
8. Women want Equal Opportunities/ Gender Commissions to be set up. This
commission is about human rights, equal opportunities and equal outcomes. The
commission is expected to
(a) Ensure that gender equality is provided for in the Bill of Rights.
(b) Ensure that there is no discrimination based on sex gender, disability or any other
diversity issues.
(c) Hear individual complaints relating to violation of women’s human rights and
investigate also on its own initiative.
(d) Conduct research on laws and practices and make recommendations on such
that eliminate gender discrimination, e.g. research on gender perspective of land
reform.
(e) Be an advisory board on public and private institutions to ensure they take steps
to address gender equality.
(f)
Recommend affirmative action where there is obvious gender inequality.
14. Transitional Justice and National Healing
Women demand that:
In order to achieve transitional justice governments should create effective frameworks for
truth telling, communication, restitution and reconciliation.
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