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| | TRIPARTITE LEGAL SYSTEM HINDERS PROGRESS TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY IN NIGERIA, SAY EXPERTS ON WOMEN’S ... |
 | | Concerning the social security system, another delegate said that, apart from the Constitution and the National Policy on Women, the Government had the National Economic Policy and was pursuing national poverty eradication programmes to take care of women and to deal with the social security issues. |
 | | SIMONOVIC, expert from Croatia, returning to the issue of child marriage, said a child bride was presumed to be an adult, yet she was not allowed to vote. She congratulated the Government for prohibiting early marriage and for enacting a new chid rights act, and asked about the relationship between them. |
 | | MANALO, expert from the Philippines, asked for answers to her questions on the number of female teachers in the educational system. To what extent were women teachers in the decision-making levels of the educational system? |
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