BDP women�s league is out of line

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The Botswana Congress Party Women’s League (BCPWL) finds the move by the BDP Women’s League (BDPWL) to invite the Kenyan High Commissioner as a guest speaker at their upcoming conference not only shocking but insensitive to the plight of Kenyan women whose rights will be grossly violated by the recently passed polygamy bill in the male dominated Kenyan parliament.


Last week the male majority of Kenyan Parliament voted into law a bill on polygamy, which among other things denies the incumbent wives the right to consultation when their husbands take another wife. This move by the male dominated Kenyan parliament is a clear violation of women´s human rights and gender equality principles. Hence, BCPWL´s expectation that the BDPWL-- supposedly a women´s rights advocacy group within the ruling Botswana Democratic Party-- would not only show solidarity with fellow women in Kenya, but also with the gender equality agenda by inviting a guest speaker whose government supports the rights of women.

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