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OTTAWA, ON, March 25, 2022
OTTAWA, ON, March 25, 2022 /CNW/ – The Authorities of Canada is dedicated to championing gender equality and taking motion to make sure that girls and ladies can achieve Canada and all over the world.
The Honourable Marci Ien, Minister for Girls and Gender Equality and Youth, led the Canadian delegation to the 66th Session of the United Nations Fee on the Standing of Girls (UNCSW66), which concluded right this moment. The occasion was held between March 14 and 25, 2022, each nearly and in New York Metropolis.
Along with Minister Ien, the Canadian delegation included Minister Sajjan, Minister Gould, Minister Vandal, Minister Guilbeault, Minister O’Regan, Minister Champagne, Parliamentary Secretary Sudds, Parliamentary Secretary Vandenbeld, federal parliamentarians Senator Marilou McPhedran, Senator Donna Dasko, Karen Vecchio M.P., Sonia Sidhu M.P., representatives of provincial and territorial governments (Natalie Jameson (PEI), Nationwide Indigenous Leaders and Representatives (Métis Girls, Native Girls’s Affiliation of Canada), and representatives from Canadian civil society organizations.
In her nationwide assertion to her worldwide counterparts, Minister Ien supplied an summary of Canada’s dedication to making sure a gender-responsive method to local weather and biodiversity coverage each domestically and internationally. The Minister additionally emphasised how Canada’s funding in a workforce that’s agile, resilient, and geared up with the abilities to ship on Canada’s transition to a net-zero financial system, will assist girls and ladies purchase the instruments they should play an lively half in that transition, notably within the STEM sector.
Minister Ien additionally participated in quite a few conferences, occasions and bilateral discussions, together with with the Government Director of UN Girls, the UN Particular Rapporteur on Violence towards Girls, in addition to Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Italy, Dominican Republic, Colombia, UK, Australia and New Zealand representatives. She additionally met the US Ambassador to the United Nations. Parliamentary Secretary Jenna Sudds participated in two digital aspect occasions hosted by Canada: one in partnership with the Canadian Girls’s Basis, focussing on “Gender-Based mostly Violence and Local weather Disaster: Forging Very important Connections,” and one other on “Empowering Girls and Women to Advance Gender Equality and Local weather Change Options.”
All through the session, members of the Canadian delegation collaborated with delegates from different United Nations members states, in addition to with worldwide CSOs to handle this yr’s precedence theme: Reaching gender equality and the empowerment of all girls and ladies within the context of local weather change, environmental and catastrophe danger discount insurance policies and programmes.
Contributors at CSW66 mentioned among the most crucial points dealing with girls and ladies on this planet right this moment. These negotiations resulted in a set of agreed conclusions, to set clear priorities and key suggestions for a path ahead on gender equality and the empowerment of ladies and ladies. Along with the agreed conclusions, member states negotiated the decision on the Strategies of Work for the CSW, which units out the format of the upcoming conferences, the preparatory processes, and civil society participation. These negotiations happen each 5 years and are essential in serving to formalize the method by which civil society can interact within the work of the Fee.
Canada is wanting ahead to subsequent yr’s CSW, which is able to give attention to innovation and technological change, and training within the digital age for attaining gender equality and the empowerment of all girls and ladies.
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“It was a pleasure to satisfy with Canadian delegates, girls’s organizations and my worldwide counterparts on the 66th session of the UN Fee on the Standing of Girls. Girls make invaluable contributions to our communities, and we want their experience to develop efficient environmental insurance policies that replicate the intersectional lived experiences of Indigenous, Black and racialized girls. As we work with our international companions, Canada will proceed to foster a gender-responsive method to local weather change.”
The Honourable Marci Ien,
Minister for Girls and Gender Equality and Youth
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Canada was a founding member of the United Nations. In occasions of world uncertainty, the UN stays an vital establishment by which Canada can play an important function, advancing and defending human rights for everybody, particularly girls and ladies.
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The CSW is a part of a world motion to advertise gender equality worldwide that provides a voice to a broad spectrum of individuals, together with Indigenous peoples, youth and people dwelling in battle and disaster settings.
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Canada held a seat on the UNCSW Fee for the 2017 – 2021 time period. This supplied Canada with a worthwhile alternative to form the Fee’s work on points that have an effect on girls and ladies globally.
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As a result of continued influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, CSW66 befell in a hybrid format. The Minister attended the primary three days in particular person. All aspect occasions had been held nearly.
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The Member States additionally reviewed the agreed conclusions of the 61st session, which befell in 2017 underneath the theme of Girls’s financial empowerment within the altering world of labor.
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