Graça Machel advocates women’s involvement in peace talks

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Graça Machel advocates women’s involvement in peace talks

2:29 CAT | 20 Dec 2017

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Human Rights activist Graça Machel advocates the active involvement of women in the dialogue between the government and Renamo to restore peace in the country.

Machel was speaking in Nampula at the opening of the North Regional Conference on Women’s Participation and its Influence in the Search for Peace and National Reconciliation for Social Cohesion in Mozambique, an event organized by the Community Development Foundation (FDC) in partnership with the Institute for Multiparty Democracy (IMD).

The two-day conference brought together more than 40 women from the provinces of Niassa, Zambézia and Nampula, with the objective of creating a space for dialogue and the definition of strategies for the active participation of women in the national agenda in search for definite peace and national reconciliation.

Machel said the event served as an opportunity to consult influential women from various segments of Mozambican society on building a body of principles and values to disseminate, defend and preserve the values of an effective and lasting peace sought by Mozambicans.

“A negotiation process for peace is underway in the country, which is being headed by the president of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, as head of state. He is working with Renamo party president Afonso Dhlakama to jointly end the use of weapons to resolve conflicts,” Machel said.

She defended the need to create a women’s social movement because, she said, they were a great factor of unity, cohesion and harmony within families.

“It is this social process that must be implemented, to solve once and for all the problems that exist in every Mozambican family, be it in the village, neighbourhood or where people live and work, but as long as it is led by a woman,” she said.

Source: Notícias