Rwanda’s speaker of parliament, Vincent Biruta, on Thursday urged the government to place gender-related issues at the “forefront” of all the country’s developmental decisions, the Rwanda News Agency (RNA) said. Biruta who was addressing a conference of women parliamentarians from Tanzania, Burundi and South Africa, spelt out the need to have equal participation in development and decision-making in particular. The conference was organised by the Forum for Women Parliamentarians in Rwanda to discuss “better ways” of having gender-related matters incorporated in the country’s draft constitution. The women, for their part, said that leaving gender issues out of development plans would be defective because “one important sector will not have been catered for”.
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