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    PanArmenian News Network
    July 30 3005

    OSCE CONCERNED OVER INSUFFICIENT PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN WORK OF
    SOUTH CAUCASUS PARLIAMENTS


    30.07.2005 03:38

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The OSCE expresses concern over insufficient
    participation of women in the work of Parliaments and national
    delegations of the member states, including the South Caucasian
    countries. OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA) special representative
    Tone Tingsgard's Gender Balance 2005 report, made public at the OSCE
    PA official website, contains this provision. It noted the quantity
    of women in the Azeri, Armenian and Georgian delegations to the OSCE
    PA did not change significantly within the past 5 years. According to
    the report the proportion of women and men in Azerbaijan's delegation
    to the OSCE PA was 1:5. The figure made 1:3 in Armenian delegation,
    while 2:5 in the Georgian. «If governments have troubles finding
    qualified candidate women, the OSCE PA national delegations can
    assist them in the search and consideration of suiting ones,» the
    report notes. At the same time the document analyzes the number of
    women MPs in the South Caucasus parliaments. The figure makes 13 out
    of 124 (10,5%) in Azerbaijan, 7 out of 131 (5,3 %) in Armenia, and 22
    out of 235 (9,4%) in Georgia. Highest percentage of women MPs is in
    the Parliaments of Sweden (45,3%), Norway (38,2%) and Finland
    (37,5%). The report notes that the OSCE PA delegations should
    encourage governments of their countries to increase the budget of
    the OSCE Office of Gender Advisor in Vienna. The document clearly
    shows that even in the OSCE - a human rights organization - situation
    is unsatisfactory in many respects, reported Trend.
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