The international locations of Latin America and the Caribbean reaffirmed in the present day their dedication to the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, the area’s most essential intergovernmental settlement on this space and a complete highway map that constitutes one of the crucial superior devices on the planet for selling the inhabitants’s rights inside a sustainable growth framework, throughout a commemoration of the tenth anniversary of its adoption.
On the particular session “10 years of the Montevideo Consensus on Inhabitants and Improvement” – held within the framework of the Fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, which is going down by Wednesday, November 15 on the fundamental headquarters of the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile – international locations agreed on the necessity to focus efforts to increase and additional carve out the trail already traveled, in addition to to boost the strengths which have made the Montevideo Consensus such a robust instrument in the middle of the final decade.
The occasion was inaugurated by Joseì Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Government Secretary; Susana Sottoli, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA); Sergio Cusicanqui, Minister of Improvement Planning of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the nation serving as Chair of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement in Latin America and the Caribbean; and Noemi Espinoza, Ambassador and Deputy Everlasting Consultant of Honduras to the United Nations, in her capability as Chair of the Fee on Inhabitants and Improvement (by video).
“A decade after its adoption, we will affirm with full conviction and proof that the Montevideo Consensus has helped promote and consolidate public insurance policies within the area’s international locations geared in the direction of lowering inequality with an intercultural, intersectional and intergenerational method based mostly on human rights and a gender perspective,” acknowledged Joseì Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ECLAC’s Government Secretary.
Nevertheless, he warned, a lot stays to be accomplished, and higher efforts are wanted to ensure the train of sexual and reproductive rights, to realize gender equality, in addition to to battle poverty and inequality, and to incorporate these inhabitants teams that traditionally have been probably the most uncared for and excluded in growth patterns.
In that context, ECLAC’s highest authority burdened that throughout the Fee, “we proceed to work on remodeling growth fashions into extra productive, inclusive and sustainable ones,” and he insisted on the necessity to get behind sectors that might not solely invigorate progress, but additionally make it extra inclusive and sustainable, permitting for the discount of poverty, labor informality and inequality.
“Though there may be nonetheless a lot progress to be made, it’s obligatory to acknowledge and admire what now we have been capable of forge thus far alongside this path. The Montevideo Consensus has change into a robust instrument in the middle of this decade. Participation, variety and dialogue are extraordinarily worthwhile property of this journey, which we should improve to be able to contribute to constructing extra democratic, extra inclusive and extra simply societies,” José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs declared.
In the meantime, Susana Sottoli, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Inhabitants Fund, emphasised that “in a context of a number of crises which are endangering a long time of progress, the Montevideo Consensus is the highway map that offers us steering for making certain well-being and equality in our international locations.”
Sottoli added that the Consensus reaffirms that the rights of all individuals should be on the heart of growth, because the Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement’s Programme of Motion acknowledged in 1994.
“We should work along with urgency to benefit from each alternative to maneuver in the direction of a extra inclusive, equitable and simply world. That may solely be doable once we be certain that girls, ladies, adolescents and younger individuals can totally train their rights, together with their sexual and reproductive rights,” she specified.
Sergio Cusicanqui, Minister of Improvement Planning of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, underscored that insurance policies should be sustained over time if we’re to confront and sort out the inequality ailing the area.
“On the similar time, deepening the intersectional and intercultural rights-based method in our public insurance policies shall be important to allow them to allow us to increase the progress, and keep away from stagnation or rollbacks, within the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus,” he added.
In a video message, Noemi Espinoza, Ambassador and Deputy Everlasting Consultant of Honduras to the United Nations, acknowledged that no future is feasible for the planet if individuals should not have appropriate situations for totally exercising their rights.
“We face main challenges, which suggests our solely choice is to work strategically in partnership, between sectors and between generations,” she affirmed.
Within the framework of the particular session, a high-level panel dialogue entitled “Challenges of stepping up implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean of the Montevideo Consensus on Inhabitants and Improvement, 10 years after its adoption” was held, with the participation of representatives of presidency, civil society and worldwide organizations who play a key function within the means of institutional consolidation of the Montevideo Consensus and of the Regional Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement.
After this, the Fifth Assembly of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement started with the presentation of the doc Population, Development and Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean: draft second regional report on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, which was ready by ECLAC with help from UNFPA.
At this assembly, governments will current voluntary nationwide experiences on the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus, and the technical secretariat – held by ECLAC – will report on the progress made within the growth of the digital platform to contribute to regional follow-up of the Consensus.
The occasion may even function two thematic panels on which authorities, civil society and educational presenters will analyze progress and challenges with respect to public insurance policies on inhabitants and growth, and on gender equality and sexual and reproductive well being and rights.
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