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Sudanese Women Demand Executive Positions Per Transitional Constitution

Michael Atit

   KHARTOUM, SUDAN - A coalition of Sudanese women's rights groups are
   demanding that women be appointed to posts at all levels of government,
   including governorships, as stipulated in the transitional
   constitution.

   The more than 10 political and civil society women's groups say women
   played a major role in the Sudanese revolution that ousted longtime
   ruler Omar al-Bashir last year and should be recognized.

   Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok should uphold his promise to
   appoint a significant number of women to posts in all political and
   executive structures of government, said coalition member Semya Ali
   Is'haaq at a news conference Wednesday in Khartoum.

   "We have observed a significant decline in these gains beginning with
   the constitutional document itself, which enshrines the participation
   of women by 40 percent in the national legislative council. We regard
   this as a clear injustice and a violation to our rights," Is'haaq told
   VOA's South Sudan in Focus.

   Chapter 7, Article 23, Subarticle 2 of the constitution states that 40
   percent of all of Sudan's council seats be given to women.

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