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Date: September 17, 2010
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Media Brief – Regional: Walking the walk on women’s rights 30 August 2010

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Regional: Walking the walk on women’s rights
Netsai Mushonga

Earlier this month in Namibia the Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance gathered to discuss our continued work to ensure the full adoption and implementation of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development in the region. We are a group of women and men committed to keeping gender issues on the agenda in every country in this region À“ which is one of the reasons we met at the same time our heads of state were meeting.

We continue to push for laggard states to sign (Botswana and Mauritius), and for most other states (except Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe) to ratify, this important instrument. Yet it seems to me that Southern African Development Community (SADC) civil society won’t make much headway with our leaders if we can’t walk the walk ourselves.

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