Unsigned SADC gender protocol worries councillors

17 July, 2009 in Botswana

source: Mmegi
NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWE
Correspondent

FRANCISTOWN: Councillors have expressed their collective concern at government’s decision to defer the signing of the SADC gender protocol, as reasons for the postponement are shrouded in ambiguity.

Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) councillor for Monarch South Ignatius Moswaane raised this point during the recent three-day workshop held in the Francistown City Council chambers.

Moswaane said that it was odd for the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Gender Links to be using the gender protocol while it was not signed.

“Gender Links is too sweet to push the government to sign the protocol,” said Moswaane.
He said that countries like Swaziland had staged [continue reading]