TODAY MARKS the end of the Women in Parliament (WIA) 2014 Summer Summit hosted in Kigali. Delegates from 45 countries convened in Kigali for the three-day meeting to address the role of women in leadership positions and the need for women empowerment.
20 years after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Rwandan society has experienced an extraordinary process of state building. One of the important measures taken to reunite society was gender mainstreaming, particularly in politics where women are granted at least thirty per cent of posts in decision making organs under the constitution. As a result, 64% of Parliamentarians in Rwanda are women. Since the election of 2008, Rwanda is the first country to have a majority of women in its Parliament.
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