Mounia Mouslem: “Algeria Is A Muslim Country, It Will Not Lift Its Reservations On CEDAW”

Algeria will not raise reservations on CEDAW, Solidarity and Family Issues Ministry, Mounia Mouslem, said on Monday.

“As long as I’m a Muslim and since President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika is our President, we will not raise the reservations that affect the Islamic Sharia concerning the CEDAW, because Algeria is a Muslim country.”

Mounia Mouslim, explained during a visit to Mila Province (Eastern Algeria), regarding the pricing that the ministry will apply on the elderly residents in the nursing homes, that the majority of them receive respectable grants and live in generosity, and their families have good income, for this they will pay a sum of money that will be put in the centres’ treasury.

“Elderly and infirm will be covered by the state as usual. The ministry would seek to lift the freezing on 180,000 ZDZ, which reached the National Center for Training the Disabled Users in Mila and turn it into a center for kids who are mentally disabled. There’ll be an immediate intervention by the judicial system in order to turn the re-education Center for Minors and kids with autism, where the works ended and after it was equipped recently”.

In the framework of the policy of rationalization the expenditures, she confirmed that the ministry will not need to build new structures for 15 years, for the fact that the existing centres can lift the disabled grant.

“The Ministry filed reports to the government about the proposed grant increase, but because of the economic conditions in the country it does not respond to the proposal.”