STORY: Somali Women Seek

assurances over the 30-percent

quota for parliamentary seats
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DATELINE: 07/SEPT/2016, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
SHOT LIST
1. Wide shot of the banner about the meeting.
2. Wide shot (panning from left to right) of the meeting room.
3. Wide shot of the women in the meeting and the guest of
honour table.
4. Medium shot (profile shot) of the Gender minister of
Somalia and other guests at the front desk.
5. Medium shot of one of the women in the meeting.
6. Wide shot of the women audience in the meeting.
7. Wide shot of the meeting room.
8. SOUNDBITE (SOMALI): ZAHRA MOHAMED ALI
SAMATAR - MINISTER FOR WOMEN AND HUMAN
RIGHTS, SOMALIA
We now have promises but we want to see the
allocation of the 30% quota in a legal document
and we demand to know who will be
responsible should we miss our share. It is
simple, the women deserve their quota and
they have participated in the process. We
appeal to the National leadership and the
traditional elders to make sure women get
their 30% representation.
9. Medium shot of some of the women participants in the
meeting.
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Medium shot of one of the women participants as she
addresses the meeting.

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Medium shot of two participants as they listen in to
the meeting.
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Close up of the face of one of the women participants
as she listens in to the meeting.
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Medium shot of one of the male participants as he
addresses the meeting.
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Wide shot of Deputy SRCC Lydia Wanyoto at the
podium as she speaks to the women audience during the
meeting.
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SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): LYDIA WANYOTO AMISOM DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
CHAIRPERSON OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION
We are speaking here with a lot of hope
because already there are signs that women
have been given their contribution through the
Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team
(FIEIT) and State Indirect
Electoral Implementation Team (SIEIT)
compositions. I want to congratulate the
federal government of Somalia and also the
National leadership forum. We have been
seeing electoral bodies consisting of women
and this is a very big achievement already.
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Wide shot of the meeting room.
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Wide shot of the women and other participants in the
meeting.
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Medium shot of some of the women participants in
the meeting.
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Medium shot of one of the women participants in the
audience as she contribute to the meeting.
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Medium shot of some of the women participants in
the meeting.
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Close up shot of one of the women participants in the
meeting.
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SOUNDBITE (SOMALI): BATULA SHEIKH AHMED
GABALE - CHAIRPERSON OF SOMALI WOMEN
ORGANISATION
There were several resolutions from various
National Consultative Forums and each one of
them stressed the allocation of the 30% quota
for women. FIET and SIEIT and the clan elders
all of them have responsibilities of ensuring

that the 30% quota is achieved but before

everything, there should be apolitical
decision.
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Wide shot of some of the panelists during one of the
sessions of the meeting.
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Close up shot of one of the women panelists during
one of the sessions of the meeting.
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SOUNDBITE (SOMALI): SHEIKH MOHAMED
ABDULLAHI MOHAMED - RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR
I appreciate the girls. They have got so many
rights. They have rights to live, rights to
education, rights to opinion, rights to
marriage, rights to vote and many more that
we cannot summarize here. They have got
many rights as men and even more.
26.
Close up of one of the women participants in the
meeting.
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Medium shot of one of the women panelists
addressing the meeting.
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Wide shot (panning from right to left) of the panelists
during one of the sessions of the meeting.
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Medium shot of some of the women panelists during
one of the sessions of the meeting.
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Wide shot of some of the women panelists shaking
hands at the end of the panel session.
STORY
Somali Women Seek assurances over the 30percent quota for parliamentary seats
Mogadishu, 07 September 2016 A lobbying
conference for affirmative action for Somali women was
held in Mogadishu on Wednesday, to push for concrete
action on the reservation of 30-percent seats for women
parliamentarians.
Somalias Federal Minister for Women and Human Rights
Development, Hon. Zahra Mohamed Ali Samatar said
women should not accept to be shortchanged in the
countrys political leadership and urged Somali people to
support the womens cause.

We have promises, but we want to see the allocation of

the 30% quota in a legal document. And we demand to
know who will be responsible should we miss our share. It
is simple, the women deserve their quota and they have
participated in the process. We appeal to the National
leadership and the traditional elders to make sure women
get their 30% representation, Minister Zahra said.
In her remarks, AMISOM Deputy Special Representative of
the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (DSRCC)
Hon. Lydia Wanyoto recommended further negotiations
with clan members over the seats.
We are speaking here with a lot of hope because already
there are signs that women have been given their
contribution through the Federal Indirect Electoral
Implementation Team (FIEIT) and State Indirect
Electoral Implementation Team (SIEIT) . I want to
congratulate the Federal government of Somalia and also
the National leadership Forum. We have been seeing
electoral bodies consisting of women and this is a very big
achievement already, Hon Wanyoto noted.
The chairperson of the Somali Womens Organization and
the deputy chairperson of the Goodwill Ambassadors for
women Ms. Batula Sheikh Ahmed Gabale, sought the
intervention of the countrys top most political leaders.
There were several resolutions from various National
Consultative Forums and each one of them stressed the
allocation of the 30% quota for women. FIEIT and SIEIT
and the clan elders, all have the responsibility of ensuring
that the 30% quota is achieved. This should be a political
decision before anything else, said Ms. Batula.
The women received support from a religious scholar,
Sheikh Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who said both
gender deserved equal treatment.
I appreciate women. They too have rights. They have
rights to live, rights to education, rights to opinion, rights
to marriage, rights to vote and many more that we cannot
summarize here. They have got many rights just as men
and even more. Sheikh Mohamed remarked.

The conference was supported by the African Union

Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The AU Mission in Somalia
has been spearheading womens empowerment
programmes, including their active participation in politics
and other spheres of life.
END