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This section is reserved for Parliamentary Observer from all sides, eager to make their contributions by posting on the site: 

 

  • Studies and Research, 

  • Articles & Reviews, 

  • Opinions & Personal Choices 

 

The Scientific Committee of the Parliamentary Observatory is committed to achieve some objectives in the short, medium and long term: 

 

  • Translation & description of the Electoral Code in National Languages 

  • Uncompromising presentation of Representatives, 

  • Evaluation of the real needs and necessities of the Constituencies...

News

The Women’s Platform to Ensure Peaceful Elections

Local elections results in Senegal

 

The Special Envoy of the African Union (AU) welcomes the Senegalese for local elections

 

The Special Envoy of the African Union (AU) for women, peace and security, Bineta Diop, praised Monday in Dakar the Women’s Platform to ensure peaceful elections, for their mobilization during local elections on Sunday in Senegal.

 

Mrs. Diop was speaking during a press conference organized by the Platform members to make a first assessment of the elections.

Fatou Sarr Sow Sociologist considers ''strategic'' parity of women in the National Assembly, after the first set of the july legislative.

"It is important that the National Assembly be paired because this is where the laws are voted, and the sharing of resources defined," she said in an interview published in the latest edition of the magazine "The Gazette "(19-26 April).

 

"It is strategic that women are in parliament," stressed Prof. Fatou Sarr Sow, also Director of the Laboratory of the Institute Fundamental Genre of Black Africa (IFAN) University Cheilh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar.

 

The Sociologist noted that, as women will have only 22% of seats in the National Assembly, they will "never switch the use of resources in education, health ...".

Prof. Fatou Sarr Sow has also noted that "it would have been nice to be told that we must have such a level to be in the Assembly'', noting that, there are countries "where if you do earn a High School Diploma, you may not be eligible. "According to Prof. Sarr," this issue of education is also valid for men and women. "

 

In "Meetings, the number is important because it counts the votes." But "there are levels where the number is not important, it is the case in the government where it is the president's vision which is applied," she said, recalling not without regrets, the fact that we "do not hear much women because they are not many."

 

Prof. Fatou Sow Sarr argued that "gender is neither a battle nor a confrontation between woman and man," but rather refers to questions of principle which the fairer sex must be present everywhere in decision-making spheres.

According to the Director of the Laboratory of Genre, IFAN "if women are in decision-making positions, they take better care of their concerns."

 

Pr. Fatou Sow Sarr on Parity at the Senegalese Parliament

The Women's Platform for Peaceful Elections in Senegal has been constant since the presidential elections of 2012. Congratulations to these women who had seen the danger coming and rose to exercise their citizenship', she has said.

 

'We came to support them and give them our solidarity but also  to encourage them. It will be present in other African countries to achieve our goal of eliminating conflicts of 2020. It is necessary to silence the guns through the involvement of women for our continent to prosper, "added Ms. Diop.

 

With 40 journalists and 12 observers deployed in the field as responsible for gathering information on the elections, the women’s platform followed up for the entire electoral process, with an analysis of data relating to the participation of gender, legal, and electoral politics.

 

When an incident or malfunction is reported in a given locality, it is automatically transmitted to the appropriate authorities.

 

Based on the Platform’s observations, the elections were held in a peaceful atmosphere and, consistent with the provisions of the Electoral Code climate, despite some shortcomings related to each other in the low mobilization of citizens and insufficiency in the representation of agents of political parties.

 

The Platform recommends that the State of Senegal, political parties and people of Senegal continue raising awareness and, strengthening the participation of women in the electoral process as candidates, voters and members of the polling stations, as recommended by parity law.

 

In addition, it calls on all political actors to mainstream the gender approach in the formation of the electorate, to guarantee citizens the opportunity to express their vote safely.

 

Consisting of more than 60 women's organizations and Pan Senegalese civil society, the platform standby was created in 2012 to promote peace and women's participation in the electoral process in Senegal and Africa.

 

This initiative is based on the 1325 United Nations Declaration of African Heads of State on Gender Equality in Africa for effective participation of women in conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

 

Pana 01/07/2014

 

 

As a prelude to the seminar planning and programming scheduled on 29 and 30 March 2014 in the Aula Magna of the UCAD II Dakar Senegal General History of the origins to the present day, we reached our micro Professor Iba Der Thiam Coordinator working group to learn more about the status of work, funding, objectives etc ...

Professor Iba Der Thiam on the big project "General History of Senegal" 

By actunet on - March 28, 2014 

 

Actunet.sn: The writing of the General History of Senegal Project “From the origins to the present day”. How have you progressed?

 

Prof. Iba Der Thiam: At present, nearly 400 (373 exactly at the date of Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 18:00H) people, wishing to participate in our seminar, scheduled for 29 and 30 March 2014, from 09:00H at the large UCAD II Amphitheater, have registered on our list.

This is proof that our approach fills a gap and corresponds to a need. Senegalese do not know their history.

 

I'll take an example borrowed from the news. When there was a shortage of water supply in Dakar, everyone said it was the first time, while in December 1913, there was a similar water crisis; therefore, 100 years ago, Dakar had experienced the same phenomenon for several days. Last week, executives discussed the origin of decentralization in our country.

None of them mentioned the decree of 5 November 1926 concerning "administrative decentralization and deconcentration" - these are the same terms as our post-independence legislation has extended full - neither the assessment report made by the General Inspection of Administrative Affairs on decentralization in AOF in June 1948, nor the political reforms of administrative decentralization that accompanied the generalization of voting in 1950-1951.

 

But is it their fault? No, because our history is not written thus, can only be unknown. I cannot tell you the number of pupils, students, teachers and journalists who often assail us, with questions that they have no answers.

Our country, which has a long history, is eager for tools, instruments, resources and credentials to locate its origins to better position itself in relation to its present, and its future, thereby making an accurate assessment of the contribution that its ancestors, elites and, current people have made to the universal heritage.

Our seminar on 29 and 30 March 2014 will reflect on the planning and programming of the work to do in order to pave the way for methodological reflections on the different contours of the Project.

All those who have expertise on the history of our country, whether historians, literary, mathematicians, physicists, geographers, economists, politicians, journalists, political scientists, traditional communicators, traditionalists, traders, Senegalese from within or outside, foreign friends of Senegal familiar with our country, are invited. No one is excluded.

We are open to all skills and all good wishes, so no ethnicity, no culture, no religion, no language, no dimension is ignored.

 

Actunet.sn: Could you tell us the outline of the project?

 

Prof. Iba Der Thiam: This is general history, from the origins to the present day.

It will be published in several volumes (the Seminar will fix the approximate number) in which will be taken into account, all the knowledge about the past of our country, from prehistory to the present, focusing on the internal dynamics, convergences and ruptures in the long term.

These structures allow all Senegalese, to know their past, understand the present and, to be motivated to address their future with confidence and assurance, to convince them that they belongs to a great people, sitting on strong values, which has built a high through fighting humanism, tests and Homeric struggles.

 

Actunet.sn: Will you afford your ambitions?

 

Prof. Iba Der Thiam: For the moment, no. But, God willing, and if we have all the means necessary, all should be completed within 2 years and a half, approximately. We have already obtained almost half of the budget. We are confident that the remainder will come through because we have to rely on sponsors from other patrons.

I wish, now, to thank and congratulate the President of the Republic, the Minister of Higher Education and Research, and the Mayor of the City of Dakar. Last but not least, the Minister of Education National and UNESCO, which have already made known their support and encouragement in writing.

 

Actunet.sn: A project as large as this will certainly have considerable benefits. What do you say?

 

Prof. Iba Der Thiam: Yes, but nothing is quite large when it comes to providing our people with a consensual collective memory, allowing it to better know, better root, and better understand, cultivate unity, solidarity, mutual respect, tolerance, justice for all, peace, harmony, democracy, peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding of all son and daughters of the nation; in accordance with the law enforcement, the public good, discipline and legally constituted authority.

Our determination is up to the challenge. We have the means to match our ambitions, because our history is rich, beautiful, despite our shortcomings and defects, which are nothing next to our admirable qualities embodied by admirable men, found in all ethnic groups, and in all social strata.

 

Once this project is completed, we will have the scientific information necessary to provide our country, on the one hand, a dictionary of Senegal on the other hand, an Encyclopedia on Senegal, which will enter our countries in the era of large modern and open nations.

With these two instruments, Senegal will develop a network of regional museums, a major National Museum, and will play its part in the future Museum of Black Civilization. It may even set up a national library.

At a time when we aim to attract between 1.8 million and 3 million tourists, cultural tourism that these new products generate, will boost appropriately accompany the Government's plans.

You see the General History of Senegal from origins to the present day, will open our land of unlimited opportunities.

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