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Inter-American Program for the Promotion
of Women's Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality
Integrating a Gender Perspective
in Ministerial-level Meetings
SEPIA I- Gender and Labor
The CIM, together with the International
Labor Organization (ILO), the Pan-American Health Organization, the Social
Development and Education Unit of the OAS and the AFL-CIO, prepared
recommendations for gender mainstreaming in the Programs and Policies of
the Labor Ministries in the Hemisphere. These were presented at the
Technical Preparatory Meeting for the XII Conference of Ministers of Labor
(XII IACML) held in Miami in July, 2001, and were considered at the
Ministerial Conference, which took place in Ottawa, Canada, in
October 2001.
A follow-up meeting,
SEPIA I- Gender and Labor, was held with other institutions and
governmental and non-governmental representatives of the labor sector
in December, 2001, to analyze
the inclusion of a gender perspective in the Declaration and Plan of
Action of the XII IACML, identify areas lacking this perspective, and
suggest strategies to promote its inclusion. The results of this
meeting were subsequently transmitted to the ministers of labor, the
Twelfth IACML Secretariat pro tempore and working group chairs, and the
national coordinators, among others.
CIM has participated in the
follow-up process of the Ministerial through the working groups
created for that purpose. In 2003, it presented a report
entitled, “Gender and Labor:
Progress, Challenges, Best Practices, and Strategies for Action”
to
Working Group 2, at a meeting held in Montevideo, Uruguay.
CIM also worked with the
Member States to make sure that gender was included in the
Declaration and Plan of Action of the XIII Inter-American Meeting of
Ministers of Labor (XIII IAML), held in October 2003, in Brazil
Final Document of the SEPIA I Meeting:
Follow up on the XII Inter-American Conference of Ministers of
Labor (IACML)-
Lines of Action and General Recommendations
Adopted at the Follow-up Meeting to the Inter-American Program: Gender
and Labor - SEPIA I
(Washington, D.C., December 2001) Final Document
Working Documents:
Incorporation of the Gender Perspective in Regional Labor Policies.
Progress and Proposals
-Working document for the meeting "Follow-up to the Inter-American
Program on the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and
Equality (SEPIA I, Gender and Labor) (December, 2001)
Working Document and Recommendations presented to the XII Conference of
Labor Ministers (Ottawa, Canada, October 2001)
Recommendations presented to the XII Conference of Labor Ministers (CIM/SEPIA
I/doc.5/01)
Declaration
and
Plan of Action
of the XII
Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor
(CIM/SEPIA
I/doc.6/01)
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