| Subject: LUSA: 10,000 Signatures Back
Women's Rights Charter in Constitution
21 Aug 01 13:23 East Timor: 10,000 Signatures Back Women's Rights
Charter in Constitution
East Timorese women's rights groups have gathered more than 10,000
signatures backing the inclusion of a "Women's Rights Charter"
in the territory's future constitution, activists announced Tuesday
in Dili.
The petition accompanies a 10-point draft charter, which includes
demands for social, health and educational rights, equal access to
traditional law and protection from domestic violence.
The charter was the focus of discussion Tuesday in Dili at a women's
rights conference opened by UN administrator Sergio Vieira de Mello.
The draft, which pays special attention to discriminatory dowry and
inheritance traditions, says the future constitution, which will be drawn
up by a constituent assembly to be elected Aug. 30, "must establish
an institutional mechanism to protect and implement women´s rights in
East Timor".
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