UN executive director said that the care agenda has become global and has shown the world that care is not a luxury, but a need
In the sixteenth regional conference on the woman of Latin America and the Caribbean that began on Tuesday 12 and culminates on Friday, August 15 in Mexico City, the demands are clear and blunt: eradicate fear, misogyny and persistent femicides, and urgently build a care society.
Sima Bahous, executive director of UN Women, warned that “the achievements” in equality “are under threat.”
He pointed out a setback “based on fear and misogyny” that can go back decades and regretted that violence and femicide “remain a reality” for many.
“The care agenda has become global. It has shown the world that care is not a luxury, it is a necessity. Investment in care is a public good, an engine of equality and sustainable development,” Bahous said.
The head of government of Mexico City, Clara Brugada, said that the city and the country seek to be surgery in the struggle and respect for the human rights of all women.
“When women gather everything moves: consciences move, the structures move and the borders of the possible move. When women organize, communities bloom, democracy strengthens and the future opens,” he said.
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, executive secretary of ECLAC, defended that Latin America and the Caribbean have a regional gender agenda “unique in the world” and recalled that this forum was the first to appoint the “right to care”, recently recognized by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
He pointed out that if “the twentieth century was a century where education was universalized (…) The 21st century will undoubtedly be the century where we manage to universalize the right to care. Act today is to sow hope.”
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UN women stressed that “the right to care, to care and self -care” recognized as a new human right is the result of the effort that has been made to have a care agenda.
In more than 35 forums and tables, the XVI Regional Conference on Women of Latin America and the Caribbean will discuss the transformations in the political, economic, social, cultural and environmental spheres to promote the society of care and gender equality.
Also, during the meeting, the relaunch of the Genus Equality Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean will be held, and a segment entitled Memory and Future will take place on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the First World Conference on Women.
The XVI Regional Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean is an intergovernmental encounter that seeks to close gender inequality gaps and generate equal and sustainable development.
With information from the EFE/UN Agency
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