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Four-day gender festival ends with call for cooperation

    DAR ES SALAAM

    Some 1,000 participants from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and other countries ended their 7th Gender Festival on Friday with an appeal for greater cooperation among women, instead of undermining each other.

    "As women, we must find a way of uniting our people as one of the means of making them participate in the development of our countries," Rose Wabwire, a Member of Parliament for Busia in Uganda, said at the end of the meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzanian.

    Mary Rusimbi, the executive director of the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme, which organised the four-day festival along with the Feminine Activism Coalition (FemAct) said delegates discussed maternal health, HIV/AIDS, land and democratic issues that affect all people, regardless of their gender, political or religious affiliation.

    She said the high level of attendance was an indication that people had begun to understand gender issues.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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