GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—President Irfaan Ali has reiterated the nation’s steadfast dedication to advancing gender equality and celebrating the resilience of ladies worldwide and in Guyana on Worldwide Girls’s Day.
The President’s message additionally marks the thirtieth anniversary of the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Motion, adopted on the Fourth World Convention on Girls.
The Beijing Declaration, a groundbreaking framework for advancing girls’s rights and empowerment worldwide, continues to encourage insurance policies and actions to enhance the lives of ladies and ladies in every single place. Guyana has made vital strides over time consistent with the ideas outlined within the Declaration, emphasizing girls’s rights and gender equality as central to the nation’s growth.
Ali highlighted key initiatives which have contributed to girls’s empowerment in Guyana in his message.
“We’re equipping girls with the assets, expertise, and help they should thrive as entrepreneurs and leaders,” the President acknowledged. He underscored the significance of applications such because the part-time jobs initiative, which has supplied hundreds of ladies with income-earning alternatives, serving to them obtain monetary stability and contribute to family welfare.
Additional bolstering girls’s financial standing, the federal government’s Girls in Agriculture Initiative has opened doorways for girls to entry extra glorious financial alternatives within the agricultural sector, considerably contributing to Guyana’s meals safety and financial development.
The Guyana On-line Academy of Studying (GOAL) has additionally confirmed pivotal in empowering girls by way of schooling. With most of its members being girls, the GOAL program has outfitted many with the data and expertise required to excel in numerous fields, unlocking extra vital alternatives for private {and professional} development.
As well as, the federal government’s provision of home heaps to women-headed households promotes residence possession and long-term monetary safety for girls, reinforcing a complete strategy to gender equality.
Ali additionally reaffirmed the federal government’s ongoing efforts to extend girls’s illustration in decision-making, together with political and management roles. He highlighted the significance of ladies’s voices in governance and their essential contributions to shaping insurance policies that drive nationwide progress.
Nevertheless, the President expressed deep concern in regards to the continued ranges of violence towards girls and ladies. “This scourge continues undermining their security, dignity, and well-being,” Ali stated.
He assured that the Authorities of Guyana is dedicated to eradicating gender-based violence, noting the implementation of strict measures to carry perpetrators accountable and supply justice to survivors. By way of initiatives such because the Highlight Initiative and strengthened authorized protections, the federal government is working to make sure that girls and ladies are protected and supplied with the required assets to rebuild their lives.
The President concluded his message by extending heartfelt finest needs to the ladies of Guyana and the Guyanese diaspora, recognizing their resilience, power, and indispensable contributions to the nation’s growth.
“On this Worldwide Girls’s Day, we have a good time your achievements, and I reaffirm our pledge to advancing gender equality,” Ali acknowledged.
“Collectively, we’ll proceed to construct a extra inclusive, equitable, and affluent Guyana the place each lady can thrive and notice her full potential.”
