Friday, March 29

Panama chairs the Council of Ministers for Women in Central America – ElCapitalFinanciero.com – Panama Financial News Panama chairs the Council of Ministers for Women in Central America


Panama assumes the presidency of the Council of Women Ministers of Central America and the Dominican Republic, through the General Director of the National Institute for Women (Inamu), Nellys Herrera.

During the meeting, Herrera highlighted the commitments that are made as a country and at a regional level, to expand a work agenda on the subject “country woman” that includes, not only the traditional aspects of agriculture, but also the issues of aquaculture, fishing women and strengthening in terms of technological resources, in order to provide technical support for rural women in the region.

She also highlighted the importance of continuing to search for alternatives that reinforce the commitments to the economic empowerment of women and to create an economic empowerment policy with a gender focus.

“We cannot avoid reinforcing the issues of violence, we will seek alternatives that allow women victims of violence to have options for economic empowerment, in order to prevent most of them from being forced to return to their aggressor” Herrera said.

With reference to migrant women, the Director of the Inamu, indicated that Panama complies with a series of international commitments, but that it is important that, as countries, each one works to guarantee the safety, honor and well-being of each woman, not only the national but also the migrant.

The Council of Women Ministers of Central America and the Dominican Republic (COMMCA is the political body of the Central American Integration System (SICA) specialized in gender and women’s human rights.

The COMMCA promotes policy proposals at the regional level aimed at transforming the condition, situation and position of women in the region and the adoption of a sustainable gender equality policy and strategy, promoting the development of the countries that make up the SICA.

The promotion of gender equality as a principle and as a right in all government actions and spheres of each country that makes up the region is a factor that contributes to the objectives of Central American integration.



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