How we could change our society in today's date? Because today crime is increase girls have not safe in our country and the children have badly affected for this?
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In promoting women’s empowerment it was critical that the international community systematically link women to the development agenda, speakers told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, as it continued its discussion on the advancement of women.
As nearly four dozen speakers took the floor to urge further international cooperation in advancing gender equality and to outline specific steps being taken by their national Governments on that front, economic empowerment was frequently highlighted as the surest route to improving women’s social status.
To this end, several delegations emphasized the feminine face of poverty and suggested that efforts to advance women and initiatives to promote sustainable economic growth were mutually reinforcing. Thus, strategies for one area should also account for the other.
Thailand’s representative said that, in her country, as in many others, women were the primary contributors to the country’s economic growth. The Thai Government was working to reverse the feminization of poverty, embarking on strategies to improve women’s education, health and empowerment. Overall, its efforts aimed to both protect the rights of, and promote opportunities for, women throughout the economic and social development process.
Echoing this focus on development’s gender dimension, a number of African countries underlined the growing awareness of the crucial role of women in development and the need for their participation in decision-making processes to ensure sustainable development.
The representative of the United Republic of Tanzania said that, to enable women’s economic empowerment, her Government actively promoted savings and credit societies in both rural and urban areas. Women also benefited from the Tanzania Social Action Fund, while a Government-established women’s bank provided training and credit that complemented other microfinancing and entrepreneurship programmes.
She stressed that her country, like other countries both on the African continent and elsewhere, was particularly concerned with addressing the economic situation of rural women. Much of its focus was on ensuring women’s access to, and ownership of, land since the majority of rural women depended on agriculture for their livelihood. She said it was imperative to “reverse the neglect” in official development assistance and Government spending on rural women.
Indonesia’s representative sounded a note of caution in the discussion on economic empowerment by highlighting an emerging danger that seemed to be the result of women’s advancement in this area. She said that as women gained more opportunities in the labour market, there was a simultaneous increase of informal work and migration among them. That trend was not necessarily negative, but a high degree of insecurity had been associated with migrant workers in the informal sector. This was particularly true for women, who were more susceptible to acts of violence.
Several other speakers underscored the dangers facing women migrant workers. The representative of the Philippines noted these women, who often worked at the lowest ends of the labour spectrum, were among the first to be laid off, as a result of the economic and financial crisis. Further, violence was also being reported in free trade and export-processing zones, where many young women migrants were hired on temporary or insecure contracts. In light of such information, her delegation planned to table a draft resolution on violence against women migrant workers, bringing attention to this phenomenon and calling for attention to the problems this subset of women faced.
As nearly four dozen speakers took the floor to urge further international cooperation in advancing gender equality and to outline specific steps being taken by their national Governments on that front, economic empowerment was frequently highlighted as the surest route to improving women’s social status.
To this end, several delegations emphasized the feminine face of poverty and suggested that efforts to advance women and initiatives to promote sustainable economic growth were mutually reinforcing. Thus, strategies for one area should also account for the other.
Thailand’s representative said that, in her country, as in many others, women were the primary contributors to the country’s economic growth. The Thai Government was working to reverse the feminization of poverty, embarking on strategies to improve women’s education, health and empowerment. Overall, its efforts aimed to both protect the rights of, and promote opportunities for, women throughout the economic and social development process.
Echoing this focus on development’s gender dimension, a number of African countries underlined the growing awareness of the crucial role of women in development and the need for their participation in decision-making processes to ensure sustainable development.
The representative of the United Republic of Tanzania said that, to enable women’s economic empowerment, her Government actively promoted savings and credit societies in both rural and urban areas. Women also benefited from the Tanzania Social Action Fund, while a Government-established women’s bank provided training and credit that complemented other microfinancing and entrepreneurship programmes.
She stressed that her country, like other countries both on the African continent and elsewhere, was particularly concerned with addressing the economic situation of rural women. Much of its focus was on ensuring women’s access to, and ownership of, land since the majority of rural women depended on agriculture for their livelihood. She said it was imperative to “reverse the neglect” in official development assistance and Government spending on rural women.
Indonesia’s representative sounded a note of caution in the discussion on economic empowerment by highlighting an emerging danger that seemed to be the result of women’s advancement in this area. She said that as women gained more opportunities in the labour market, there was a simultaneous increase of informal work and migration among them. That trend was not necessarily negative, but a high degree of insecurity had been associated with migrant workers in the informal sector. This was particularly true for women, who were more susceptible to acts of violence.
Several other speakers underscored the dangers facing women migrant workers. The representative of the Philippines noted these women, who often worked at the lowest ends of the labour spectrum, were among the first to be laid off, as a result of the economic and financial crisis. Further, violence was also being reported in free trade and export-processing zones, where many young women migrants were hired on temporary or insecure contracts. In light of such information, her delegation planned to table a draft resolution on violence against women migrant workers, bringing attention to this phenomenon and calling for attention to the problems this subset of women faced.
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