Ministry of Women's Rights, Child Development and Family Welfare[2]
Ministers
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]
From November 2019 to October 2024, Kalpana Devi Koonjoo-Shah was appointed Minister of Gender Equality and Family Welfare.[9]