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| Kathmandu, Wednesday October 30, 2002 Kartik 13, 2059. |
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Regional meet on women
empowerment
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Oct 29:Minister for Women, Children
and Social Welfare Gore Bahadur Khapangi today inaugurated the Fifth Regional Meeting
organised to discuss the documents approved during the review of Beijing conference held
five years ago.
The meeting was organised by the Forum for
Women, Law and Development in order to review the Beijing Declaration and the action plan
formulated after the announcement of Nepal’s commitment to the Declaration in 1995.
The Forum had earlier held similar regional
conferences in four development regions and had also prepared a report. On the occasion,
experts had discussed women empowerment, women’s literacy, health, women in politics
and violence against women and women’s rights as human rights.
"We have just prepared a draft yesterday
that indicates all the discriminatory laws against women, and we will make necessary
reforms. But before that women have to be ready for social reforms as well", he
added.
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