The panelists included Roxanna Reyes, Deputy Attorney General for Women’s Affairs in the Dominican Republic, Susan O’Malley, Chair of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women New York, Commissioner Cecile Noel, NYC Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence and LuizaCarvalho, Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean of UN Women.
The experts shared best practices to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in its efforts to achieve gender equality, and promote women’s rights and empowerment from the international to the local level. Moreover, the event aimed at strengthening the Dominican Republic’s commitment to end gender violence in general.
Focusing on local efforts to promote gender empowerment, Bertha Santana provided the results of GFDD’s ReCrearte program, that was born in 2013, and explained that “more than 5,000 women have participated in the program since its inception”, highlighting that. Operating in 98 locations throughout the Dominican Republic, Santana illustrated how the workshops were creating “a community of women that work together and feel special and empowered”.
To illustrate the beneficial impact that the initiative had on women communities she concluded her presentation by screening a short video interview of one of her workshop participants Johanna Rivera.
The sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 14 to 24 March 2016. The priority theme of the conference was “Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development”, and the review theme “The elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls (agreed conclusions from the fifty-seventh session).”
About ReCrearte
ReCrearte works with disadvantaged members of the community who receive training in recycled art and creating objects from trash. They also learn the “three gold rules” or the 3Rs for the proper management of solid waste: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The workshops demonstrate and underscore the idea that recycling and turning waste into art strengthens individuals as well as communities.
Related Links
http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw60-2016
http://www.globalfoundationdd.org/project_recrearte.asp
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/women-and-the-sdgs
Niños y adultos desbordaron un amplio salón de FUNGLODE, para seguir las instrucciones de Bertha Santana y Moses Ros, sobre creaciones con botellas plásticas y cartones desechados.
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