Ministry of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare
January 07, 2023
The Ministry of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare is a cabinet-level division of the Government of Mauritius. As of February 2021[update], the Minister of Gender Equality and Family Welfare is Kalpana Devi Koonjoo-Shah.[1]
Ministry of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare
Ministry of Women's Rights, Child Development and Family Welfare[2]
Ministers
Maria Francesca Mireille Martin meeting Vayalar Ravi in 2012
In 1991, Sheilabai Bappoo began serving as Minister for Women's Rights, Child Development and Family Welfare. She left the ministry in 1995.[2]
From September 2000 until July 2005, Marie Arianne Navarre-Marie served as Minister of Women’s Rights, Child Development & Family Welfare.[3]
The position was held by Bappoo as the Minister of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare from May 2010 until August 2011,[2] when she was succeeded by Maria Francesca Mireille Martin until December 2014.[4] Marie Aurore Marie-Joyce Perraud then served as minister until December 2016.[5]
The position was held by Fazila Jeewa-Daureeawoo from January 2017 until November that same year.[6] She was succeeded by lawyer Roubina Jadoo-Jaunbocus,[7] however, she was removed from the position in July 2018 after an inquiry accused her of meeting with jailed drug traffickers who were not her clients. Jeewa-Daureeawoo took up the position again,[8] and remained Minister until November 2019.[6]
In November 2019, Kalpana Devi Koonjoo-Shah was appointed Minister of Gender Equality and Family Welfare.[9]
^ ab"The Minister". Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Welfare. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^ abc. National Assembly of Mauritius. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^"Hon. Marie Arianne NAVARRE-MARIE". Mauritius National Assembly. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^"Honourable Mrs Maria Francesca Mireille Martin". Mauritius National Assembly. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^"Bio-data of Honourable Mrs Marie Aurore Marie-Joyce PERRAUD, MP". Mauritius National Assembly. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^ ab"The Minister". Ministry of Social Security and National Solidarity. from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^"Cabinet reshuffle : Roubina Jadoo-Jaunbocus minister, Fazila Jeewa-Daureeawoo Vice Prime Minister". Le Défi Plus. 17 November 2017. from the original on 27 November 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^"Mauritius minister resigns after commission of inquiry on drugs". Africanews. 28 July 2018. from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^"Bio-data of Honourable Kalpana Devi Koonjoo-Shah, MP". Mauritius National Assembly. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
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