28TH JUNE, 2002 - ConstitutionNet

13them.Gender Equality Commission: There should be a constitutional provision for engendering the national budget.Education was key to the success of the new constitutional dispensation. It was recommended that the constitution levels ofeducation be examined to make education accessible.The constitution of the family should expressely be protected in the constitutional design. As part of the political parties andensuring upholding constitutional order, they should be required to subscribe to the basic principle of gender equality throughsuch constitutional injection of legislature political will be required.Gender Commission: The new constitution should provide an independent gender commission to monitor and review process inthe implementation of gender equality, law and policies to pursue existing national development policies and programmes.Recommended Amendment to them consistent with a gender sensitive democratic agenda. The agenda commission shouldhave an approporiate interaction with a link to _______ (inaudible) parliament so as to ensure that its recommendations arelegislated and monitored.Citizenship: The law barring a woman from interjection:Com. Mutakha Kangu: Ngoja kidogo mama, Wapi yule translator? Hawa watu tunataka wasikie maneno ganiinazungumzwa. Fanya hivi, simama kando hivi, hapa karibu, so that we don’t have the interferance with the recording.Endelea tu from where you have reached.Margaret Sore: Citizenship.Translator: ngakiro akwapMargaret Sore: The law barring a woman from passing a citizenship to both her husband and children are discriminatory.Translator: eyei etal itengerit aberu aliwor itwaan akop aache tare lokilokeng ekaneniMargaret Sore: And contravance the confension of the elimination of all forms of discrimination.Translator: aria ibore eni akitiak narononiMargaret Sore: The new constitution should provide for all citizenship applied for women and married to foreigners.Translator: echamakina akatiba na einakini ngitunga daang alolom aliwor ngitunga kaneMargaret Sore: Then pass on their citizenship to their foreign spouses