Esperança Bias encourages iPU Members in the search for peaceful solutions

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Esperança Bias encourages iPU Members in the search for peaceful solutions

2:28 CAT | 13 Mar 2023

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President of the Assembly of the Republic Esperança Bias has urged women parliamentarians from all over the world to strive for cohesion and leadership in the search for sustainable solutions to the challenges confronting women.

Speaking at the Forum of Women Parliamentarians on the side-lines of the 146th Assembly of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) in Bahrain, Bias observed that worsening political-military tensions, extreme weather events and the food and energy crises affected women in particular.

The Women’s Parliamentarians Forum took place under the motto: Women’s Leadership in the Face of Insecurity and Crises – Putting Gender Equality, Safety, Climate Resilience and Sustainable Peace First.

‘As parliamentarians,” she said, “we need to outline holistic solutions that allow us to design national policies to combat impunity and the violation of human rights, promote social justice and gender equity and respect for the dignity of women.”

The president of the Mozambican parliament in her contribution told participants that Mozambique’s Assembly of the Republic had passed laws concerning family matters, including those addressing gender-based violence and premature marriage.

The Assembly General of the IPU, which ends today (15-03), takes place under the motto “Fighting Intolerance, Promoting Peace, Coexistence and Inclusive Societies”.

Led by Esperança Bias, the Mozambican delegation inckuded Eduardo Mulémbwê, Lucinda Malema, Gania Mussagy and senior staff of the General Secretariat of the Assembly of the Republic.

Source: AIM