By a Staff Reporter
JUSTICE Minister Doros Theodorou said yesterday the new government will implement a series of measures and policies promoting equality between the sexes.
In a speech marking International Women’s Day, Theodorou said the government’s vision was a society “without discrimination, complete respect for human rights, and where men and women have equal rights and the same opportunities to evolve and create”.
He said the government’s main objectives were to strive towards equal pay in the workplace, equal opportunities, parental leave, the protection of motherhood and the reconciliation of professional and family obligations.
Meanwhile women’s organisations yesterday gathered at Eleftheria Square in Nicosia and in other city centres in peaceful protest against a war in Iraq.
The women handed out pamphlets to passers-by, expressing their opposition to any US-led attack on Iraq and calling on European Union governments and countries worldwide to give peace another chance.
They also expressed the hope that a solution to the Cyprus problem would be found – a solution that secured all residents’ human rights and in the absence of settlers and occupation forces.
Women also gathered at the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia’s buffer zone in honour of mothers and wives of persons missing since the 1974 Turkish Invasion. Representatives of various organisations called on the government and political leadership to solve the issue of the missing.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
