Yemen: GPC tops political parties in terms of woman participation level

Almotamar.net - A government report revealed that the General People’s Congress GPC ruling party in Yemen tops the list of political parties and organisations in terms of the volume and level of women participation in the leading bodies of parties at a rate of 20%, next to it the Yemen Socialist Party by 14%, the Unionist Nasserite Organization by 7% then the Yemeni Congregation for Reform Islah by 4%.

The report on assessment of the level of carrying out the Woman Development Strategy and the 3rd five year plan, presented at the 4th national Conference of the Woman that concluded in Sana’a Sunday, clarified that the GPC scored the first place by 33% with regard to the woman presence in the leading positions of political parties and organisations.

The report also affirmed the increase in the proportion of women working at decision-making positions, the cabinet, undersecretaries and assistant undersecretaries, directors generals, judges and local councils from 0.57% in 2005 to 1.9% in 2006 and the increase of the proportion of women in the leading bodies of political parties from 6.8% to 9.9% for the same period.

According to Al-Mithaq newspaper in its today’s issue the woman participation is still very limited especially in the higher positions.

-- Al-Motamar.net