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Banjul, The Gambia (TNBES) An act to implement the legal provisions of the national policy for the advancement of Gambian women and girls 1999-2009 and any other policy that might be formulated for the same purpose, and to incorporate and enforce certain aspects of the United Nation Convention on the
Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and the protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Right of Women in Africa and for other matters concerned therewith.
Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and the protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Right of Women in Africa and for other matters concerned therewith.
The women bill 2010 which has been circulated to all members of this august assembly, it has covered a wide range of issues relating to the right of women and girls as human rights matters. This bill is relevant and timely considering the fact that from time immemorial some Gambian women and girls have been victims of circumstances and had suffered innumerable forms of marginalization and abuse in society. These unpleasant situations in which some women and girls are subjected to often dispute their daily lives and equal opportunities to progress, such as lack of shelter, poor clothing and malnutrition among others
thereby exacerbating poverty.
thereby exacerbating poverty.
