The Chief Justice, Getrude Araba Torkornoo has backed a call to deeping the gender parity of women in the legal space.
“She believes if women are offered the opportunity, the quest for strengthening sound policies and enforceable legislation will be realised. Clearly, the strong gains made in the presence of women in the administration of law and justice in the nations must invite campaigns as is being launched today.”
Achieving gender parity and fairness in the work place is a goal deserving of sustained campaigns, and the surge of women in the work space of the law must be enabled and guided to provide a stronger, healthier, and more beneficial legal and judicial sector that realises the rule of law for the entire community,” she said.
The Chief Justice made this comment at the Launch of the Gender Equality in Law Campaign in Accra, organised by the Institute for African Women in Law (IAWL), a Pan-African non-profit government organisation based in Washington.
Touting the works by the IAWL so far, the Chief Justice said, “work model of IAWL in activating evidence-based research to identify the points of weakness in institutional practices and policies that challenge the positive development of the careers of women in the legal space, as well as the actualisation of their leadership potential, is the critical tool needed by policy makers, the nation that the sector serves, and the legal community itself to shape the best trajectories for administration of justice.”
She added, with With the evidence realised, stakeholder engagement and public advocacy to ignite needed policy reforms are also the very tools required for compelling needed change.
Stake holder engagements assist to bring out all the variants of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that can drive or stultify needed change. Knowing them, and addressing them with critical initiatives and interventions are the required actions that will produce change.
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