The vice chairman of commonwealth parliamentary association (CPA), Minister for parliamentary affairs and Majority leader in Ghana’s Parliament hon, Osei Kyei Mansah Bonsu has assured the inter parliamentary union ( IPU) on 145TH annual conference held in Kigali (Rwanda) that CPA is committed to equal gender representation in government,

Addressing the leadership and members of the assembly at Kigali Mr Osei Kyie Mansah Bonsu said the commonwealth parliamentary association is committed to strengthen gender representation and prioritizes that in all CPA parliament and legislatures he revealed that the recent CPA conference held in Halifax Canada, the association amended it’s constitution to increase women representation at the executives committee level.

According to him this demonstrate commitment within the CPA family to strengthen gender equality and representation in our parliament.

He emphasised that whereas the Association believes that some significant progress has been made in the pursuit of gender equality and representation in many commonwealth parliament, re-gendering parliament should not be seen as an additional burden to be placed on womenparliamentarians alone, but rather gender balance and gender sensitivity can only be achieved when Stakeholders bond and band together in addressing and eradicating harmful practices and procedures, formal and informal rules norms, behaviours, barriers and restrictive cultures.

Hon, kyei-Mensah -Bonsu concluded by urging parliaments of the world to work unrelentingly towards gender sensitivity.

Story by Nana Kwaku Boffah
parliamentary correspondent.