Nasira Javed For More Active Participation Of Women In Politics

Ustice (retd) Nasira Javed Iqbal on Friday urged the women to take part in politics more actively and also come forward to contest elections.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Mar, 2018 ) :Justice (retd) Nasira Javed Iqbal on Friday urged the women to take part in politics more actively and also come forward to contest elections.

In an interview with Private news channel, she said women have made enormous progress in the political arena, but they still have a long way to go before there is equal representation. Towards these ends, we provide training for women political candidates to help build their capacities, and offer voter and civic education and sensitization campaigns on gender equality, she added.

Nasira Javed said, we back gender equality advocates in calling on political parties, governments and others to do their part in empowering women. Other initiatives encourage young men and women to engage in advocacy around making gender equality measures central to public policy making.

She highlighted women's equal participation in politics is their basic right. They constitute nearly half of the total population of the country.Their contribution through their triple roles of productive, reproductive and community management is vital to the development of the economy and society.

Their active participation in the decision making processes, determining how resources are to be used and in setting national priorities will not only improve the lot of women, it will also deepen democracy and strengthen the process of development in the country, Justice said.

Nasira Javed said women's political participation and protection of women's rights has always been a challenge in the developing countries. Despite the fact that Pakistan is a developing country with a developing economy yet women have actively been attempting to take part in government, and development of female-oriented civil society.

She said women participation in politics has always played a great role in the political stage since the reform of Pakistan in 1947 where Fatimah Jinnah sister of the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah, had an active participation in the political sphere and that had been an inspiration to all women in Pakistan.