A Women’s Organization has called on the government to ensure that 50% of top positions in Government, statutory body and board memberships should be given to women.
Those were the words of NGO representative Ema Drauvesi at the International Women’s Day Celebrations at Civic Centre yesterday which was seconded by other women's NGO representatives.
Some women organizations also called for women doing domestic duties, house girls and cleaners to be covered under the minimum wage to be set from $100 to $175 a week.
Women Ministry Permanent Secretary Govind Sami replied that all these proposals would be taken into consideration through talks with the new umbrella group called the Fiji Women’s Federation which was established this year.
Meanwhile, this was the cry from around 250 people who walked the streets of Suva last night as part of the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Reclaim the Night March calling for safer surroundings
Assistant Coordinator Edwina Kotoisuva said the march was also to remember the women and girls who have lost their lives to violence.
80 percent of women have been through some form of violence in the home according to the United Nations Development Fund for Women which also states that levels of violence against women in the Pacific are amongst the most severe in the world.
NGOs want more women in top govt positions
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