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National Women Commission charts out five-year plan

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KATHMANDU, May 27: The National Women Commission (NWC) has charted out its five-year strategic plan for the first time giving high premium to the issues concerning gender balance, social equity, diversity, participation, freedom, independence, accountability and access as its basic norms and values. [break]



NWC presented a draft of the plan at a program organized on Wednesday.



While presenting the plan, member of strategic plan development committee Saloni Singh justified that the plan was formulated to empower women so that every woman could entirely enjoy human rights, social justice, independent identity, dignity and esteem.



She added the plan was developed to serve the greater objective of ensuring the proportional and social inclusive participation and representation of women in every levels and bodies of the government, guaranteeing their access to justice, rule of law and the culture of gender equity and peace, contributing to end gender-based violence and mainstreaming gender stakeholders in governance.



The strategic plan stressed the need to build collaboration with the government and other stakeholders to execute the program incorporated in the plan.



Various participating speakers dubbed the presented strategic plan as contextual and suitable and opined that the commission should be kept aloof from the politics.



Speaking at the program presided over by NWC Chairperson Nainakala Thapa, secretary at Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare Binda Hada, Constituent Assembly (CA) member Radha Gyawali, Khagendra Prasain, among others, said all sides should remain cautious towards the issues of women.



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