Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Social Action, Family and Promotion of Women, Faustina Alves, expressed, on Monday(14), the concern of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) with violence against women and girls, which in many cases end in deaths.
Speaking, on behalf of the Portuguese-speaking community, at the 66th session of the Commission on the Statute of Women (CSW), which has been taking place since yesterday in New York, Faustina Alves said that this is why the CPLP has reinforced its action in the fight against violence. against women and girls, declaring the active struggle for the elimination of gender-based violence and femicide and promoting zero tolerance towards them.
The minister appealed to those present to join the CPLP in this path that it has been following, for a quarter of a century, in the promotion and protection of the human rights of all women and girls, engaging men and boys in this endeavor.
“If we educate men and boys, we will certainly be promoting and protecting women and girls, so as not to leave anyone behind,” he said.
The CPLP, according to Faustina Alves, recognizes that gender inequality and climate and environmental crises and disasters are among the greatest challenges of sustainable development, affecting the entire planet and all peoples, with disproportionate impacts on women and girls.
He expressed the CPLP’s solidarity with the families of countries that have been heavily affected by climate change, and that have lost their loved ones and property.
“Climate change and its negative impact must be seen as a problem arising from development, with implications for men and women, and relevant to all sectors (social, cultural, economic and political), both at national, regional and and local, as well as worldwide”, he defended.
Faustina Alves said it was necessary for all stakeholders to make “concerted efforts” to ensure that measures on climate change and disaster risk reduction take gender issues into account.
“Without any doubt, women possess invaluable knowledge and skills, as well as being effective agents of change in terms of mitigating and adapting to climate change, as well as reducing disaster risks and building resilience. ”, he underlined.
From the perspective of Faustina Alves, natural disaster recovery and mitigation initiatives promote clear opportunities to transform gender relations, which limit the ability of women and men to anticipate, survive, face and recover from the effects of disasters. To take advantage of these possibilities, he said it is essential to develop and support creative strategies with a view to reducing risk and promoting sustained change.
“In short, the gender perspective is essential in environmental policy, because it allows women to participate in decisions that relate to the lives of all of us”, he summarized.
The 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which closes next Friday, takes place under the theme “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental policies and programs and disaster risk reduction”.
The minister of Social Action, Family and Women’s Promotion intervened on behalf of the CPLP, within the scope of the Angolan presidency of the organisation.
CPLP launches appeal for gender approach
The Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) calls for the need for an “abortion
holistic and sensitive data” on gender, focused on sustainable development, climate change, environment and natural disaster mitigation.
The appeal was made yesterday by the minister of Social Action, Family and Promotion of Women, Faustina Alves, when, on behalf of the CPLP, she spoke at the 66th session of the Commission on the Statute of Women (CSW), taking place in New York.
The CPLP, he said, recognizes that natural disasters do not affect people equally, so, he considered, “an approach to natural disasters suggests that inequalities in exposure and sensitivity to risk, as well as in access to resources, capabilities and opportunities systematically disadvantage certain groups of people, in particular women, making them more vulnerable to the impact of natural disasters”.
In her speech, Faustina Alves regrets the conflict situation that is still felt in some CPLP member states, whose consequences affect, mostly, women and girls. In this sense and with the aim of reducing the negative impacts, the minister said it was urgent to make efforts to implement Resolution 1325, Women, Peace and Security.
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