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OAS Secretary General Calls on Governments to Strengthen Their Commitment Towards Equality on the International Day of Women
March 8, 2012
On the International Day of Women, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, called on the region's Governments to maintain and strengthen the commitments adopted in order to achieve gender equality.
"It is important to keep looking for new commitments and to strengthen those already adopted, with the aim of eliminating gender inequality in a job environment, creating opportunities for decent work, as well as generating conditions that allow women to fulfill their rights as citizens", said Secretary General Insulza.
The head of the OAS celebrated that institutions such as the World Economic Forum and the World Bank have acknowledged that "countries with higher levels of equality are more productive, enjoy higher levels of economic growth, have more representative institutions and present better economic forecasts in the newt few years." "Nowadays gender equality is acknowledged not only as a human right and a development goal, but as a smart economic policy", he noted.
Furthermore, Insulza said that "a democracy that refuses to fight for gender equality is only half a democracy". He said that "advances should be consolidated and obstacles should be overcome with some systematic and persistent work."
However, he warned that many issues remain to be solved and he criticized that “Women still access the labor market in a condition of disadvantage, unprotected, in unstable situations, lacking social security and with low income,”
Concluding his remarks, Insulza made a call to "reflect on this questions and to establish the necessary mechanisms that lead to faulty being a reality reflected on our countries' development plans and democracies."
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