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Socialist International
Women is looking forward with great confidence to the work of the
new President of the Socialist International. The SIW with its member
organisations expects to find him a strong ally concerning policies
for women.
Worldwide, women are
still affected by discrimination and disadvantages: concerning employment
and income, within the family and in politics. Women do place great
expectations in social democratic and socialist women and men to
implement policies that will guarantee better lives for all. SIW
expects the new SI President will identify with these concerns and
strongly support the needs of women.
The credibility of the
Socialist International concerning policies for women lies in a
just - and consequently high - participation of women in all its
bodies. The new statutory conditions state that 'representation
of either gender in all elected statutory and non - statutory bodies
of the SI must not be less than one third. This provision must be
reflected in the composition of the delegations of member parties
to congresses and councils'. We expect the new SI President to call
on all member parties to comply with the statutes.
Concerning the implementation
of the amendments to the SI Statutes, which was adopted at the SI
Council meeting held in Madrid in February 2004 and will be ratified
at the next SI Congress, SIW calls on the new SI President to work
out in cooperation with the SIW President a practical and just method
to achieving the requested one third of female members in the SI
Presidium.
A strong Socialist International
is needed more than ever. SIW wishes the new President every success,
which will thus be the success of the Socialist International.
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