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Time
to change in Action
During those last 25 years after the International
Women’s Year, there have been declared and adopted series of the international
conventions and conferences for the establishment of civic and just world society.
CRC, CEDAW, Vienna Human Rights Conference, ICPD Cairo Conference, Copenhagen Social Summit,
Beijing Conference are some of the examples in this process.
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In these efforts, the rights
and concerns of women have been well documented and ensured. In this sense, the last
quarter of 20th century was remarked as the achievable period for the ensurement of
women’s right. Required action plans and programs for the women empowerment and
equality have been well planned in this time.
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"Don't
drop out your daughter from school...
Give her a chance to complete
it."
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Now the time has changed and we have already
entered into 21 century. As the paper work is already done, now it is the time to
implement these commitments into action. Though most of the governments throughout the
world sign and display their agreement to such conventions, yet very few of them take
action seriously on the issues. Therefore, media and other bodies of civic society of the
concerned country should continuously create pressure and launch advocacy campaigns to
make the government implement their signed agreements.
In this context,
the role of the organizations like ASMITA should be more powerful and strong since it has
to function as the media pressure group for the proper implementation of the signed
commitments regarding women’s human right and empowerment. Similarly its another important function is to
raise mass awareness on women related issues so that it can ultimately contribute to
develop the just, gender bias and violence free society. For this, the organization has to
launch diverse programs. Diversification in the activities of ASMITA is also the result of
performing the same responsibilities.
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Brief about Nepal
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Nepal is situated in the south of the
Himalayas between India and China with a total area of 147, 181 sq. km. The
estimated population is projected to be 22367048 in 1999)...
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