DAR ES SALAAM, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Tanzania's Association of Non-Governmental Organisations on Wednesday marked the International Women's Day by appealing to
the government to fast track the process to review laws that provide limited
access of women to participate in economic activities.
The NGOs, dealing with the protection of human rights, also said they were not happy with the fall in the number of women appointed in various
administrative posts.
Naemy Sillayo, a representative from the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC), said the government's plans to build an industrial economy will not
succeed if there will be no gender balance.
She said lowering the number of women in executive and political positions denied them their right to contribute in building the national economy.
"If we were to count the number of female Members of Parliament we will find them occupying only 30 percent of the entire number of the MPs," said Sillayo.
"And again we have only four women in the cabinet out of 19 ministers," she said.
"Despite government efforts to develop an industrial economy, gender inequalities still persist and in most cases women are the victims," she added.
Rebecca Gyumi, founder of the Msichana Initiatives Association, said it was high time the government respond to various social and economic challenges in
the country in order to empower women.
Anna Mgwhira, Chairperson of the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT-Wazalendo) opposition party, urged women from all walks of life to keep
exploring opportunities that would earn them income at the same time raising
their voices against gender discrimination.
"As we mark this year's International Women's Day, we challenge gender inequalities and ensure women of all ages benefit from policies and programmers
that promote equality, and respect the human rights of women of all ages,
abilities and statuses," said Mgwhira.
Mgwhira, who contested in Tanzania's presidential race in the 2015 general elections, said empowering women was a cross-cutting issue that needed
intervention from public and private sectors.
She appealed to financial institutions to loosen lending conditions to enable women acquire loans to enable them engage in entrepreneurship activities.
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- China's 2017 defense spending is budgeted to grow 7 percent, an official with the Ministry of Finance said Monday.
China's military expenditure will be 1.04 trillion yuan (about 152 billion U.S. dollars), including 1.02 trillion yuan from the central budget, the
official said.
The figures can be found in a draft national budget for 2017, which has been submitted to the current annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC),
the official said.
China's budget law and the law on national defense require that defense budget every year be included in the draft report of government budget to be
reviewed and approved by national lawmakers, the official explained.
The official told Xinhua that the military spending is in line with China's economic development and defense needs.
"The majority of the defense budget will be spent on deepening national defense and military reforms, bolstering military and civilian integration, and
improving the living, training and working conditions for service personnel at
grassroots levels," the official said.
China's defense budget growth this year is the slowest in at least a decade. The increase last year was 7.6 percent, breaking a multi-year run of
double-digit growth.
Fu Ying, spokeswoman for the NPC annual session, said Thursday that China's defense budget would expand by "about 7 percent."
She added that the defense spending accounted for only about 1.3 percent of the country's GDP, in contrast with NATO members' pledge to dedicate at least 2
percent to defense.
Fu also pointed to the recent U.S. proposition to hike defense spending by 10 percent.
Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump asked for a huge 54-billion-U.S. dollar increase in the country's military spending in his first address to
Congress after taking office.
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finance ministry announced.
The announcement came as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was holding a meeting with his close aides and advisors to examine the prospect of calling snap
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Following the ratification of the new 86-billion-euro-worth (96 billion U.S. dollar), three-year bailout by the European Support Mechanism on Wednesday
evening Homme ECCO Fusion Slip On COCOA Marron Soldes , the first loan installment of a total of 26 billion euros was paid out, the national Greek news
agency AMNA reported.
About 13 billion euros were allocated to a special account at the Bank of Greece to automatically repay a 3.4-billion-euro debt to the European Central
Bank (ECB) due on Thursday Homme ECCO Classic Moc 2.0 Loafer Marine Soldes , a 2.2 billion euro debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the rest to pay off the 7 billion
euro bridging loan ESM granted to the country in July.
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banks, while one billion euros will be used for the payment of overdue
obligations of the Greek government to the private sector.
The development clears the way for the premier to decide on his next steps in the domestic political scene Homme Bottes ECCO Jamestown Mid Noir Soldes , analysts in Athens noted.
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