Women Political Rights Advocacy Group (WPRAG) held a meeting with Qassem Alemi on 27th June 2018

Members of the Women Political Rights Advocacy Group of FEFA met with Mr. Qassem Alemi, technical deputy minister of justice, on June 27, 2018, to share its proposal on strengthening women membership and participation in political parties. At the beginning of the meeting, Mrs. Mariam Arween, Women and Youth Outreach Officer of FEFA, presented information about the Women Political Rights Advocacy Group and said, “The group has developed proposals about strengthening the role of women in the political parties. Before developing the proposal, member of the group studied the laws and procedures on the political parties and then developed the proposal. The proposal included 2 parts. The first part includes women challenges and problems in the political parties and the second part includes makes recommendations on amendment and reforming the laws and procedures on the political parties to strengthen the role of women in the political parties.” She stated that the proposal was shared with the chief executive of government (Dr. Abdullah Abduallh), the deputy chairman of IEC (Mrs. Wassima Badghisi) and Mr. Aman Riazat (Deputy of Ministry of Justice). The proposal makes recommendations on the amendment of the following articles of the law on the political parties: • Paragraph 2 of article 9 must allocate one-third of seats for political parties to women; • Paragraph 6 of article 12 must obligate the political parties to introduce candidates in elections given gender-balance; • Paragraph 1 of article 15 must exempt women from paying membership fees to political parties;