South Sudan: Women MPs Demand for More Leadership Posts

1 December 2011

Juba — Female Members of Parliament (MPs) in the South Sudan National Legislative Assembly complained yesterday over underrepresentation of women in the Independent Commissions and moved a motion that the names of the Chairpersons of Anti-corruption Commission with its deputy and the Chairperson of Human Rights Commission with its Deputy should be taken back to the Office of the President such that at least a woman should be among the Chairpersons to represent the 25% constitutional posts for women.

However, in the course of voting women lost the rejection of the Chairpersons because 108 MPs voted for the approval of the names, 65 in which the majority were women voted for the rejection of the addition of women in the Commission post, while 16 abstained.

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