The Minister for Equality, Social Services and the Elderly, Samantha Sacramento, has attended a meeting in London as a member of the Steering Committee of Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP). The CWP was founded by women delegates in 1989 in order that women could discuss ways to increase female representation in Parliament and work towards the mainstreaming of gender considerations in all Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) activities and programmes.

In 2004, the group was formally recognised in the CPA’s Constitution and the CWP’s elected Chairperson added to the CPA Executive Committee.

A new Chair of this Committee was appointed recently and this was the first meeting of the newly appointed steering group and new Chair. The issues discussed at the meeting involved aims and objectives of the Steering Committee.

This visit forms part of the Minister’s commitment to further the Government’s Equality Agenda.

‘This is another international committee on which Gibraltar is now represented,’ said Minister Sacramento. ‘And I am pleased to have this opportunity to discuss Equality issues with fellow-Parliamentarians.’