Patan (Lalitpur), Aug 10: Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that Gender sensitivity is an important issue of overall social transformation.
At a workshop on gender sensitivity organised by the Nepali Congress at its central office, Sanepa, today, President Deuba said that a respectful, safe and inclusive society can be built if we all become sensitive on this matter. “The party will initiate necessary efforts to implement the ideas and suggestions related to gender sensitivity based on collaboration and coordination with all sides concerned.”
Sharing that social democratic political parties of various countries are associated with social democracy network, he added this network has been making contemporary political, economic and social debate of Asian region deeper and boarder.
Social democracy has been working as a strong platform for making inclusive law based on development, equality and justice, he stressed.
On the occasion, NC President Deuba remembered Nepali Congress leader and founding President of Nepal Women’s Association, Mangala Devi Singh, adding that Singh struggled for establishing women’s right to vote in the first municipal council election held in 2004 BS.
Similarly, NC Joint General-Secretary Bhishma Raj Angdambe laid emphasis on the need of making genderl equality effective while another Joint General-Secretary Mahalaxmi Upadhyay said gender equality is the matter of concern of all, not only of women.
President of Nepal Women’s Association, Usha Rawat, pointed out the need of making society aware about gender equality.
