“We’re right here right now, dedicated to our work alongside all ladies working for the well-being of all of us”, mentioned Ana Lucía Reis, the mayor of Cobjia, Bolivia.
Mayor Reis famous a number of the measures which type a part of the town’s complete strategy to protected public areas in Cobjia “starting from including LED lights all through the town to foster security after darkish to offering entry to protected markets for ladies to promote their produce and merchandise”.
“As mayor, I commit to making sure a gender mainstreaming strategy throughout all our axes of labor”, mentioned Quito Mayor Pabel Munoz. “We should all ensure that the hassle to ensure ladies’s rights shouldn’t be merely a slogan, however that it’s translated into public insurance policies, laws, and in investments.”
The worldwide mayor’s assembly was hosted as a part of UN Girls’s Protected Cities and Protected Public Areas International Leaders’ Discussion board, which befell from 28 to 30 November. On the final day of the discussion board, UN Girls launched “The Quito Declaration: International Dedication of Mayors to Speed up Motion: Protected Cities and Protected Public Areas with and for Girls and Women.”
The dedication, launched beneath the banner of the Technology Equality and aligned with a number of blueprints of its Motion Coalitions, highlights concrete motion that cities can soak up assist of gender equality and ending violence towards ladies. It requires rising ladies’s and ladies’ significant participation, management, and decision-making energy in cities and communities, and for the inclusion of ladies’s voices all through all processes.
It additionally notes the significance of utilizing partnerships to develop new, evidence-driven, and human rights-based approaches to forestall and reply to sexual harassment and different types of violence towards ladies and ladies in public areas.
The dedication additional stresses the necessity for accelerating the event of gender-responsive insurance policies, methods in areas reminiscent of local weather change, sanitation, city and transportation planning, financial growth, meals methods, and safety, together with programmes which might be knowledgeable by dependable knowledge, to advance gender equality and girls’s empowerment in cities and communities to remove structural inequalities.
Along with the mayors who had been current on the international assembly, different mayors signed on to the worldwide dedication, reaffirming their dedication to persevering with to work for cities that promote gender equality and girls’s rights to dwell a life freed from violence, and to speed up these efforts. Almost 30 mayors have been the primary to endorse the worldwide dedication, together with the cities of:
- Barranquilla and Bogota (Colombia)
- Quito, Ibarra, Otavalo, Morona Santiago, Pichincha (prefect) (Ecuador)
- London (United Kingdom)
- Cobija (Bolivia)
- Edmonton, Montreal, Halifax, Calgary, Ottawa (Canada)
- Damietta (Egypt)
- Hawassa (Ethiopia)
- Guatemala Metropolis (Guatemala)
- Monterrey and Mexico Metropolis (Mexico)
- Chisinau (Moldova)
- Fez (Morocco)
- Niamey (Niger)
- District of San Miguel, Lima (Peru)
- Arusha and Zanzibar Metropolis (Tanzania)
- Montevideo and Canelones (Uruguay)
- Ho Chi Minh and Da Nang (Vietnam)
The assembly marked the launch of the worldwide dedication, and the time for catalytic motion to catapult ahead as a part of the localization of the sustainable growth objectives.
“We have to widen this highly effective circle of champions – together with as a part of the Protected Cities and Protected Public Areas International Initiative”, mentioned Maria-Noel Vaeza, UN Girls Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean, Technology Equality Mission, Govt (a.i) and Senior Advisor to the Govt Director, UN Girls. She famous the significance of constructing to scale built-in approaches starting from gender-responsive budgeting to care work, vitality, local weather, and ending violence towards ladies in all of the settings the place it happens.
If different metropolis mayors want to endorse the worldwide dedication, please contact UN Girls at: protected.cities@unwomen.org.
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