24 November 2008
Addis Ababa — Angolan minister of Family and Women Promotion, Genoveva da Conceição Lino, highlighted the importance and role of women in the country's policy making.
The minister was addressing the closing of the 6th Africa Economic Development Forum ( VI FDA) that took place from November 19-22, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Genoveva Lino valorised the Government commitment to women presence in decision making organs.
She recalled that currently, there are about 40 percent of woman MP in the Angolan parliament, whereas 30 percent of Government posts is held by women.
The minister also hinted that Angola is signatory of the various international and regional juridical instruments related to the promotion of women and gender equality, highlighting the UN Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, the facultative protocol, the protocol additional to the African charter on human and people's rights.
According Genoveva Lino, Angolan Government is engaged in the formulation and approval of a national policy on gender that will lead to the institutionalisation of gender matters at the level of the state administration and organisation of the civil society.
This she added, includes the micro-credit policy that she said constitutes an instrument for equal access of women and men to financial resources, aiming at the reduction of poverty.
During the event, the participants discussed such topics as elimination of violence against women in Africa, financing for gender equality in Africa, African women contribution to self-affirmation, Hiv/Aids and Convention on all forms of discrimination against women.
Angola was represented at the meeting by a multi-sector delegation headed by the minister of Family and Women Promotion, Genonena Lino, and comprising the deputy minister of Defence, Cândido Pereira dos Santos Van-Dunem and the deputy minister of Justice, Ana Carlos Kaneno.
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