COUNTRY ATTENDS UN MEETING ON WOMAN DISCRIMINATION

July 8, 2004 – (Angola Press Agency) An Angolan delegation, led by the Vice-minister of Family and Women Promotion, Filomena Delgado, left the country today bound for New York, United States of America, to participate from July 12-23 at the 31st session of the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Woman.

Speaking to Angop, at the Luanda's International Airport, Filomena Delgado said that the mission will officially present to the United Nations, on 12th of this month, the report of the Governemnt activities regarding woman promotion and the elimination of discrimination in all senses.

To Filomena Delgado, the female situation in Angola is not desirable yet, since, the declaration of the Heads of State and of Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) of 1997, states that each member country should have by 2005 at least 30 percent of women in the Government organs and in political, administrative and economic decision-taking structures.

The Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Woman was established with the objective to follow the implementation and assessment of the UN convention on the elimination of all means of discrimination against woman.

Integrates the delegation the Vice-Minister of Social Welfare and Reintegration, Maria da Luz, the National Director for Woman Rights, Maria Mpana Medina, and technicians of the Ministries of Employment and Social Security, Administration of the Territory, Family and Women Promotion and of Social Welfare and Reintegration, as well as independent experts.

Angola adhered the Convention in 1984, having presented only two reports contrarily to the expected five.

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