Constitution Drafting
The GJC and WLB added an article to the Constitution instituting quotas in all aspects of the government.
Given the historical and systemic exclusion of women from decision-making in Burma, the Federal Union of Burma is committed to ensuring that women are adequately represented in all governmental decision-making bodies on the national, state and local level. To that end, women must comprise at least 30% of all decision-making bodies, as well as at least 30% of all commissions, committees or other entities created to carry out the duties of those bodies, including:
Legislative bodies such as:
- Chamber of Nationalities
- Assembly of the Federal Union of Burma
- Chamber of the People's Representative
Judicial Bodies such as:
- Constitutional Court
- Supreme Court
- All lower courts
- Military Courts
All entities carrying out the duties of the executive branch, such as:
- Ministries
- Commissions
- Armed Forces
- National Security Council
- Federal Intelligence Force
- All state and local governmental bodies
- All future decision-making bodies shall be bound by this article.
Failure to be listed in this article shall not be read to imply purposeful omission.