DUSHANBE, May 21, Asia-Plus  - A ceremony of signing of a Treaty on Partnership of Public Associations “From Legal to Actual Equality” will be held in Dushanbe on May 22. 

Ms. Tatiana Bozrikova, the chairperson of the Public Foundation Panorama, told Asia-Plus on Wednesday that the main objective of the treaty is to strengthen contribution of public associations to fulfillment of recommendations of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and promotion of gender equality in the country.  

            According to her, 26 public associations from Dushanbe 12 public associations from other regions and districts of the country will sing the treaty.  

            “With support of the UNDP CO in Tajikistan and the department for constitutional rights of citizens within the President’s Executive Office, five regional roundtable meetings have been conducted to discuss issues related to the establishment of the coalition and constituent documents,” Ms. Bozrikova said, adding that 97 organizations and groups on May 21 expressed readiness to join the partnership treaty.  “The treaty is supposed to be singed by all its members during May-June.”  

Tomorrow, representatives of government’s commission for fulfillment of international obligations on human rights, the committee for family and women’s affairs, as well as a number of international organizations and media will attend the treaty-signing ceremony.