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Women’s Rights – 2008

Some significant progress was made in terms of empowering women in political and civil life. Sudan’s president, in his address to the first Sudanese Women parliamentarian’s Forum organized by the National Organization of Sudanese Women Parliamentarians, stressed that women would be given 25 percent representation in the next parliamentary, national, and state elections.¹ The National Assembly passed the National Election Act of 2008 on 7 July 2008, which gave 25 percent of the seats to a separate women’s party list.²

1. “Sudan; President Affirms Special Status for Women in Allotting Posts,” Africa News, March 21, 2008.
2. “The CPA Monitor-Monthly report on the Implementation of the CPA,” UNMIS, February 2009.