Namibia: WAD Wants Gender Equity

9 September 2011

Windhoek — The Executive Director of the Women's Action for Development (WAD), Veronica De Klerk, wants Parliament to consider amending the Electoral Act to ensure that all party lists for the National Assembly elections are gender balanced.

This, she opines, is meant to achieve gender balance in the National Assembly, where women's representation currently stands at 25 percent below the 50/50 target expected by 2015.

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