BOCONGO urge government to give effect to CEDAW

BOCONGO prepared and presented a shadow report and an oral statement to the 45th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women sitting in Geneva from January  18 to February  5 2010.

The oral statement focused on five priority areas that merited the attention of the committee in its review of the Botswana state periodic report. These are inadequate and ineffective legal and structural framework for the protection of women, dissemination of CEDAW and all laws affecting the status of women, substantive equality in power sharing and political representation of women violence against women, sexual reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.