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wubitThursday, March 12, 2009 at 11:01:00 AM EDT
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Addis Ababa Prime Minister MELES ZENAWI has called on Ethiopian women to organize themselves and contribute their share in the effort to ensuring rights and benefits.
The prime minister responding to questions raised by women to mark International Women’s Day Sunday. March 5/2009 it celebrated for 33 times in Ethiopia.
Closed to 5000 women drawn from across the nation attended the event.
The questions raised by the women focus on challenges facing Ethiopian women.harmeful traditional practices and their negative impacts, problems in the implementation of court rulings on those who harass them, lack of development and health centers especially in pastoral areas, problems in the implementation of women’s package and effort to empower them were some of the questions.
Prime Minister MELES said that women should be at the forefront in the struggle against harmful traditional practices as they are the prime victim.
The celebration is not over it continue in women’s 5000 K.M run I promise you that I will inform you everything about it.
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