Female candidates need help [Archives:2003/04/Local News]

Aiming to build a democratic awareness among the society through supporting women and activating their political rights in voting and nomination, Arab Human Rights Foundation, under Dr. Waheeba Fare’e, Minister of Human Rights’ patronage , and in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, held on Sunday Jan. 26, 2003 a discussion meeting on the difficulties and challenges female candidates face and how they can be overcome.
Secretaries-general of political parties and the heads of constituencies for the parties participated in that event by exposing their support for women political participation as well as all the obstacles that women face besides giving the procedures that parties should take in favor of supporting female candidates, either those independent or those partisan affiliation.
In addition, a number of women, who had been nominated during 1993-1997, participated, along with local council candidates, to display their previous experiences for the candidates of the next election to benefit from.
Moreover, international and national organizations and governmental departments and democracy activists in the country participated as well.
There were working groups to search for whatever that could support female candidates in the electoral campaigns and to discuss the points of view of parties, candidates, media, and national and international organizations…etc.

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