Gov’t threatened with lawsuit for ignoring women representation

JUBA – The Women Bloc of South Sudan has threatened to take the country’s parties to the revitalized peace agreement to court for disrespecting the revitalized peace agreement’s provisions that recognize and gives women some positions at all levels of governments.

According to the revitalized peace agreement, women shall be represented with 35% of all positions at all levels of governments, but the parties to the revitalized peace agreement, notably the former ITONU under President Salva Kiir Mayardit has not appointed women to the extent of 35%

Speaking during a show of the Eye Radio in Juba on Wednesday, Mary Akec Bior, the chairperson of the Women Bloc of South Sudan said the parties to the revitalized peace agreement have continued to attack women’s share of power as recent appointments have not take women’s shares into account.

“This issue can take people to court because the agreement stipulates that women should be given equal share with men. It is already in the mandate of the SPLM constitution,” she said.

“The main issue is that we are not part of the decision making process, we are not consulted either,” she added.