Azerbaijan may adopt strategy on gender equality

It is reasonable for Azerbaijan to adopt a strategy to promote gender equality for 2010-2015, chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of the Azerbaijani Parliament Rabiyyat Aslanova said during VII Conference of Ministers of the Council of Europe "Gender equality: equality de jure and de facto" in Baku.

Baku hosts a conference on gender equality on May 24-25, organized with the support of the government of Azerbaijan and the Council of Europe. The first conference on this topic took place 25 years ago. The participants of the conference also include Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe Maud de Boer-Buquicchio and UN Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro.

"The strategy can serve as a requirement of ensuring the implementation of state policy, monitoring of the state and society in this direction", Aslanova said.

She said that an important issue today is the practical organizing of the mechanism for women's preparation for political activity through the formation of women's leadership schools. Spheres, changed in favor of gender equality, are NGOs and institutions of legal protection, Committee Chairman of the Azerbaijani Parliament said.


/Trend/