{"id":71020,"date":"2018-10-29T04:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T02:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=71020"},"modified":"2018-10-29T04:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T02:28:43","slug":"united-nations-calls-for-inclusive-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/10\/29\/united-nations-calls-for-inclusive-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations calls for inclusive elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Audrey Kapalamula: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/goodall-gondwe-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-61948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/goodall-gondwe-2-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/goodall-gondwe-2-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/goodall-gondwe-2-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/goodall-gondwe-2.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator, Maria Jose Torres, has urged electoral stakeholders to create a conducive environment for the participation of all citizens in next year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe need to create an enabling environment so that everybody can have a right to vote and be voted [to positions]. Whether you\u2019re a disabled person or woman, you have the right to vote and you have to do it without being intimidated and that will be a tremendous development for Malawi. We hope to see that happening in 2019,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The UN resident Coordinator also said promoting women participation is key to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Goodall Gondwe, commended the UN for their support to end poverty through SDGs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Kapalamula: United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator, Maria Jose Torres, has urged electoral stakeholders to create a conducive environment for the participation of all citizens in next year\u2019s elections. \u201cWe need to create an enabling environment so that everybody can have a right to vote and be voted [to positions]. Whether you\u2019re a disabled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71023,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71020\/revisions\/71023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}