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Thursday, 29 April 2010
Twenty-Second Sitting of the Gender Equality Committee
At the sitting of 29 April, the Gender Equality Committee hosted a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Gender Equality Commission.
At the sitting of 29 April, the Gender Equality Committee hosted a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Gender Equality Commission. They discussed the prospectives for establishing cooperation between working bodies and exchanging experiences on gender equality issues and improvement of the position of women in the two countries. They emphasised the need to hold thematic sittings on issues of common interest from this sphere.
At the beginning of the meeting, the parliamentarians from
The Chairman of the
The members of the Gender Equality Committee stressed that the problems as regards the achievement of gender equality in the two states are extremely similar. There are no mechanisms for the implementation of the adopted laws and regulations from the sphere of gender equality and improvement of the position of women which is why the results of their implementation are unsatisfactory. They deemed that the educational system and the media play a key role in the promotion of these laws and alteration of practice.