Critique and Amendments Proposed on National Commission for Women Bill at National Convention of Voluntary Women’s Organizations

8 July, 1990

 

The National Women’s Organisations, which have been demanding the constitution of a National Commission on women, have made their objectives and demands extremely clear regarding the status, the functions, the powers and the composition of this Commission at the meeting which was convened by the Department of Women and Child Development on 5th February 1990. The meeting categorically rejected the proposal of the Government to establish the Commission by an executive resolution and recommended that it should be a statutory body. This would ensure that it has the autonomy and powers not only to take the ...

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