Arturo Sanchez Jimenez
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, July 20, 2024, p. 10
Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alicia Bárcena concluded yesterday a working visit to New York City, during which she participated in the ministerial meeting and the dialogue on Care and Support Systems of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (UN); she also met with senior officials of the organization to analyze strategies and lines of action regarding the Summit of the Future that will be held in September.
During her speech at the dialogue on Care and Support Systems, the chancellor highlighted the There is an urgent need to create comprehensive national care systems that involve the entire society in order to have a greater contribution to the economy; therefore, in national systems and in the liberation of women’s time, enormous opportunities can be created in new sectors.
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What we want is the implementation of comprehensive care systems, because what we need is to move towards a care society. We are not talking about the economy only, but that the population as a whole must become a care community so that care does not fall almost exclusively on women, but that the entire society is committed to care.
he stressed, according to a statement.
Bárcena pointed out that next year the Regional Conference on Women and Development will be held in Mexico, with the aim of moving towards a care society, with topics such as the rights and vision of indigenous and Afro-descendant women, and care as a common good.
