The Caribbean Household Planning Affiliation (CFPA) unites with girls throughout the Caribbean and worldwide to commemorate International Women’s Day. Established in 1971, CFPA is unwavering in its dedication to girls’s bodily autonomy, sexual and reproductive well being and rights (SRHR), and gender justice. As a pivotal participant in championing the rights of ladies to stay free from oppression, CFPA’s legacy underscores a steady battle to stay a wholesome and flourishing life.
Over the a long time, CFPA along with its members and companions have performed a strategic function in constructing wholesome and match societies, by way of its funding in girls’s rights – addressing gender injustices which impede girls’s dignity, well being and wellbeing, rendering them lower than human. With its members, volunteers, and companions, very important SRH companies are delivered in addition to training and consciousness, advocacy for reproductive rights, sexual rights, gender equality, the elimination of gender-based violence and the correct of adolescents to entry SRH companies.
Based on CEO, Rev. Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth: “There’s no hope for gender equality with out investing in girls and women to train their sexual and reproductive rights. For girls and women to resolve their very own futures, they need to be effectively geared up to stop the dangers of unintended being pregnant and have management of their our bodies. Investing in turning round reproductive injustices is a key step to remodeling the lives of ladies and women, households and society as a complete.”
Dr Rosmond Adams, CFPA Board President, acknowledged that “The theme, Spend money on Girls – Speed up Progress, serves as a potent name to motion, recognizing the indispensable contributions of ladies in propelling societies ahead. Funding in girls includes dismantling the boundaries which have traditionally impeded girls’s progress, from the house to factories, companies, clinics, hospitals, lecture rooms, boardrooms, and the streets. It calls for an unwavering dedication to offering equal alternatives in high quality of life, training, healthcare, and the skilled area.”
As we have a good time the achievements of ladies within the Caribbean and worldwide, we should stay conscious about the persistent challenges that proceed to hinder their development. By investing in girls, we’re not solely empowering people; we’re fortifying the very foundations of our societies. It’s a strategic transfer in direction of innovation, inclusivity, and sustainable improvement.
On this collective pursuit of progress, Civil Society Organisations, Governments and Religion Based mostly Organisations throughout the area should harmonize their efforts for the widespread good. Allow us to provoke our vitality and zeal to bolster regional efforts to problem discriminatory legal guidelines, antiquated norms as we proceed to shatter glass ceilings to domesticate environments the place girls can flourish unencumbered. By way of these deliberate actions, we affirm our dedication to fostering a future the place each girl can manifest her inherent potential.
On this Worldwide Girls’s Day, let our celebration be a proclamation of solidarity, recognizing the transformative energy of investing in girls. Collectively, allow us to speed up progress in direction of a world that not solely acknowledges however cherishes the power, knowledge, and resilience of our girls.
Completely happy Worldwide Girls’s Day!
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