GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—The Secretary Basic of the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM), Dr. Carla Barnett, stated Friday that even because the area celebrates girls’s progress, “many challenges have to be overcome.”
In a message marking Worldwide Ladies’s Day 2024 underneath the theme, “Put money into Ladies: Speed up Progress,” the area’s prime feminine public servant stated that Caribbean international locations this 12 months ought to “rejoice the progress we have now made in direction of gender equality and ladies’s empowerment.
“Our member states are introducing gender-responsive budgeting, laws, and insurance policies are being reformed, and pointers, instruments, and protocols are being made out there to assist the implementation of gender mainstreaming and monitoring of outcomes throughout completely different sectors.”
Nonetheless, she acknowledged that “even because the area strikes in direction of equality for all,” many challenges have to be overcome.
“Knowledge point out that fewer girls than males within the area are incomes incomes, unpaid care work continues to be predominantly executed by girls and ladies, and gender-based violence continues with nice depth. This displays the continued presence of cultural beliefs, norms, and practices that underpin social exclusion and inequalities,” Barnett stated.
She stated that because the area progresses, strengthening regional and nationwide gender equipment is vital to investing in girls and accelerating progress.
“We should additionally strengthen the implementation of social and financial insurance policies to make sure that gender equality packages embody everybody. I urge all ladies and men to work collectively to attain gender equality,” she added.
In the meantime, in a message marking the event, United Nations Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres stated the worldwide physique celebrates girls and ladies worldwide and applauds all they’ve achieved within the combat for equality.
“Ladies and ladies have made vital good points, demolishing boundaries, dismantling stereotypes, and driving progress in direction of a extra simply and equal world. But, they face immense obstacles.
“Billions of girls and ladies face marginalization, injustice, and discrimination, whereas the persistent epidemic of violence in opposition to girls disgraces humanity. Our world nonetheless displays millennia of male-dominated energy relations.”
Guterres stated that progress is underneath assault, with a fierce backlash in opposition to girls’s rights.
“At our present charge, authorized equality is a few 300 years away,” he stated, including that we should transfer a lot quicker.
“On Worldwide Ladies’s Day, we stand with girls and ladies combating for his or her rights and decide to accelerating progress. This 12 months’s theme, put money into Ladies, reminds us that ending the patriarchy requires cash on the desk.
“We should assist girls’s organizations on the entrance line. We should put money into packages to finish violence in opposition to girls and to drive girls’s inclusion and management in economies, digital applied sciences, peacebuilding, and local weather motion.”
Nonetheless, the UN Secretary-Basic stated this will depend on unlocking finance for sustainable growth in order that international locations can put money into girls and ladies.
“We additionally want to extend the variety of girls leaders in enterprise, finance, central banks, and finance ministries. This can assist drive investments in insurance policies and packages that reply to girls’s and ladies’ wants.
“Ladies’s rights are a confirmed path to truthful, peaceable, affluent societies. They’re good for us all. Let’s take pressing motion collectively to make them a actuality,” Guterres added.
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