{"id":71570,"date":"2018-11-12T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=71570"},"modified":"2018-11-12T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T11:00:36","slug":"female-lawyers-petition-peter-mutharika-on-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/11\/12\/female-lawyers-petition-peter-mutharika-on-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Female lawyers petition Peter Mutharika on cabinet&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Kamtambe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peter-mutharika-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-66724\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peter-mutharika-1-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peter-mutharika-1-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peter-mutharika-1-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/peter-mutharika-1.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Women Lawyers Association of\u00a0\u00a0 Malawi on Monday afternoon\u00a0 presented a petition\u00a0 to the Office of the President and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/vice-president-office-not-on-cabinet-list\/\">Cabinet<\/a> (OPC) seeking President Peter Mutharika to include more women in his cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika recently appointed a twenty member cabinet where there are only three women out of the twenty ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director of Action Aid Malawi Grace Malela (a lawyer by profession) and other representatives of Women Lawyers are the ones who delivered the petition.<\/p>\n<p>Last week some Civil Society Organisations also delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/csos-petition-un-on-cabinet\/\">petition<\/a> to the United Nations offices in Lilongwe, pushing for the removal of President Peter Mutharika as a He-for-She champion,arguing he is not fulfilling his role as a 50\/50 campaigner.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika was appointed a He-for-She champion by the United Nations Headquarters over his &#8216;commitment&#8217; in promoting gender equality.<\/p>\n<p>The petition by the women lawyers was received by the Chief Secretary to the Government, Lloyd Muhara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Kamtambe. The Women Lawyers Association of\u00a0\u00a0 Malawi on Monday afternoon\u00a0 presented a petition\u00a0 to the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) seeking President Peter Mutharika to include more women in his cabinet. Mutharika recently appointed a twenty member cabinet where there are only three women out of the twenty ministers. Executive Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71570","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=71570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71572,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71570\/revisions\/71572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}