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Source: http://msupress.msu.edu/editorbio.php?editorID=489 not sure about reliability. The Emang Basadi Women's Organization came into existence in 1986.

Source: http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_3747.html Emang Basadi, a women s rights organization, has started a political education program aimed at encouraging women to participate in the forthcoming general election. The prime objective of the voter education programme is to empower women to contest in their respective parties primary elections.

Emang Basadi is worried at the low number of women who contest elections despite them being the majority in most political parties. The ruling Botswana Democratic party (BDP) has more than 51 per cent of its membership being women.

The voter education programme was started in 1993, two years before the Beijing Conference. Emang Basadi intensifies the programme before every election, the first was held in 1994 and the second, five years later.

Segametsi Modisaotsile, the Political Education Project Coordinator says the other aim of the project is to fight voter apathy, which has been prevalent in the past elections. The programme targets different political parties and their women s wings, encourages political parties to endorse women s demands which are included in Emang Basadi s manifesto. The organisation s project also encourages and trains women to campaign for political office and lobbies for affirmative action and quotas in favour of women in decision making bodies and management positions.

The project is in line with one of the calls of the Beijing Platform of Action, which advocates for a 30 per cent representation of women in decision making-positions.

despite the umber of women who won the primaries in the BNF, the percentage of women s representation, at 5 per cent is far from the quota advocated for at the Beijing Conference.

Botswana has 18 per cent women representation in parliament and cabinet. In Southern Africa, women constitute, on average, 18 per cent of all parliamentarians in the SADC region. South Africa, Mozambique and Seychelles, with close to a 30 per cent proportion of women in parliament, rank among the top ten countries in the world in regard to women in politics, according to a recent survey published in a journal, : Women in Southern Africa. Beyond Inequalities

The Botswana statistics show an improvement since the introduction of the political education programme. In 1994, women constituted 12.5 per cent of the cabinet, 10 per cent of mayors and council chairpersons, 17.8 per cent of town clerks and council secretaries and 14.8 per cent of elected councilors.

Source: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/botswana_39594.html

President: Ms. Athalia Molokomme (Imelda?) (Athlia?)

Source: http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_813.html

The Government has also teamed up with Emang Basadi, a women's rights organisation based in Gaborone, to fund a project aimed at empowering women and children. Since the project was launched in September last year, 726 women have been assisted through counselling and legal aid services. Emang Basadi (Setswana translation for Women stand up), Co-ordinator, Idah Mokereitane says they intend to publish educational material to empower women and children with relevant knowledge to protect their rights as the country prepares to commemorate International day for the elimination of violence against women on November 25.

Source: http://www.sdonline.org/45/vanallen.htm possible major POV issues.

Stand up, Women! NGO in 1986, formally Emang Basadi has been offering counselling to survivors as well as perpetrators of violence.

Source: http://www.aegis.com/news/irin/2002/IR021004.html

Non governmental organization, Conducts research, provides legal and social advocacy for AIDS orphans, and fights abuse of government assistance to AIDS orphans

Source: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-30003250.html

Laws covering inheritance, property ownership and child maintenance are also being targetted

Source: http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/SOCPOR/NGPA/index.htm

Feminist NGO and lobby group

Source: http://www.un.org/french/africa/osaa/ngodirectory/dest/countries/Botswana.htm

Found 1986, funding from membership fees, local and foreign donations. Focus: Advocacy Capacity Building Community Sustainable Development Democracy Education Employment Creation Participation Politics Training Voter Education Emang Basadi is a women's rights organization whose strategies and activities are geared towards bringing about gender equality in Botswana. Initially Emang Basadi's activities were focused on women's legal rights, but currently, the major focus is on women's political empowerment The political education project was established in 1993, a year before the 1994 general elections in Botswana. Through this project, Emang Basadi entered into / carried out projects and advocacy work to increase the number of women's representation in Parliament which increased from the traditional maximum of 5% to 9.1%. This is just one of the successes which resulted from the political education project.

Source: http://archive.idea.int/ideas_work/22_s_africa/elections_5_botswana.htm

Following the amendment of the Citizenship Act in 1982, a group of Batswana women met to decide how to challenge this Act which denied Batswana women married to foreign men the right under the law to pass on citizenship to their children. The women felt that the Act denied them their democratic rights. They formed an organization called Emang Basadi that has since become a leading organization in terms of advocating for women's rights.

The Dow Case

Emang Basadi tried since its formation in 1986 to lobby government to amend the Citizenship Act and to enact a gender-neutral piece of legislation