PWU discusses women participation in political parties

The Progressive Women Union of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) organized last Monday a joint seminar with the Arab Women Network for Gender Balance (Thaira) which focused on ways of ensuring the participation of women in decision making structures of political parties in order to boost equality within these parties. While the Network’s coordinator, Khatun Haidar, underlined the importance of this issue, the President of PWU, Wafa Abed, emphasized the association between women’s political participation and daily participation in community matters. “It is an unending evolution and infinite struggle to cope with fast changes in a world where change has become its only constant feature,” Abed explained. For his part, Zafer Nasser, PSP general secretary, noted that the “women’s participation is an issue that concerns both women and men,” adding that the anticipated role of women has yet a long way to go. He also emphasized the importance given to this matter by Party and its leadership, which, he claimed, is demonstrated in various current initiatives that are being undertaken in preparations for the forthcoming municipal elections.

Al Mustaqbal, April 26, 2016