Bolivian women are demanding greater progress in gender equality – La Jornada (Bolivia)

Representatives of Bolivian women’s organizations agreed yesterday to strengthen the institutional framework for further progress in terms of gender equality and meet one of the goals of Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development.

This theme focused part of the discussions yesterday in this capital during the Forum of the United Nations (UN) for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women, held at facilities of the Vice President.

Expert in Strategic Planning UN Women, Elizabeth Salgueiro, said that the significant progress of the country, in normative terms, must be accompanied by a process of strengthening institutions in the area of ​​gender. This will implement public policies that strengthen the full exercise of women’s rights in the country, he said. He also recalled that Bolivia and member countries of the UN approved and pledged to work for the fulfillment of the objectives and goals of Agenda 2030. The aim five of the document, approved last year at the United Nations, calls on governments to achieving gender equality and empower all women and girls. It will be a new horizon for the transformation of our societies that addresses fundamental challenges such as poverty, inequality and violence against women, she argued. In his opinion, if the institutional framework is strengthened can advance decisively towards gender equality and women’s empowerment manner. For its part, the president of the Organization of Women Aymaras Kullasuyu (OMAK), Andrea Flores, decided to boost own alternatives to enforce the rights of the women. Moreover, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Gabriela Montaño said the struggle of social movements is key to the profound transformation that suffered the Bolivian state in terms of space for women in political, economic and social fields. It was not a ministry or vice-ministry of the woman who gave them alternation and parity in the Constitution of the State, but a social force organized, he said. They were women, men, indigenous, mobilized professionals, who introduced this possibility in the Constitution to force struggle to wrest a colonial state and patriarchal rights for us, Montaño said.