WUNRN
Egyptian Center for Women's Rights
Egypt - Political Parties Discuss the Code of Ethics for Supporting Women’s Political Participation
(Cairo, April 29th
2014) ECWR organized a seminar for the political parties entitled “Code of
Ethics for Supporting Women’s Participation… A Step for A real Participation of
Women in the Upcoming Parliamentary and Local Elections.” The Seminar was
attended by 37 heads of political parties and representatives of women’s
committees of many parties including the Party of Egypt’s Revolution, El-Tagammo’a
Party, The Egyptian Social Democratic party, the Justice Party, the Free
Egyptian Party, the Socialist Labor Party, the Human Rights & Citizenship
Party, the Ongoing Revolution Party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party,
Revolutionary Guard Party, El-Wafed Party, the Democratic Union Party, the
Egypt National Party, the Egypt Arab Socialist Party.
The seminar aimed at presenting a draft of the Code of Ethics among political
parties in order to support women’s participation. This draft has been
developed by ECWR to recognize the political parties’ points of views and their
proposals on it in order to prepare the final draft of the code.
The last monitoring report of the 2011/2012 parliamentary election and its
various indicators was presented in the seminar as well. One of most important
indicator was the increase of the number of female candidates and voters which
have been skipped all the number of women’s participation since 1956. Also the
number of women candidates in the Southern governorates was very high, and the
political parties dealt with women as a complement for the electoral lists.
Then, the current political map was presented and concluded that most of
political parties deal with the women’s issue as a secondary consideration.
They also deal with women “logic of calling at Election Time” however, they
don’t thing to put them on the top of the electoral lists and their nomination
is an idea has others dimensions don’t include women’s issue.
The seminar concluded with some proposals from the political parties on the
Code of Ethics; one of the most proposals is sending a copy of the agreed code
in the political parties Affairs Committee to be a reference.
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