Cuba approves draft National Program for the Empowerment of Women

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 3 (ACN) The proposed National Program for the Advancement of Women was approved by the Cuban council of ministers in Havana on October 30.

Teresa Amarelle Boue, secretary general of the Cuban Women's Association, presented the text, which took into account the discrimination and violence against women that still persist, despite the progress and positive results of the work for their fair valorization in the country.
The program is conceived as the agenda of the Cuban State for the advancement of women and should mean a point of continuity, progress and development of gender equality in the nation.
Among its proposals is to achieve greater comprehensiveness and effectiveness in the prevention and elimination of discrimination and violence against women, with the aim of fostering equal rights, opportunities and possibilities, as endorsed by the Constitution of the Republic.
To promote educational and training actions from childhood, in order to foster interpersonal relationships based on equality, respect and shared responsibility, and to include the issue of gender in curricula of all forms and levels of education, are other guidelines outlined in the proposal.
The plan also emphasizes the responsibility of systematically confronting violent or discriminatory manifestations in all areas of society, establishing evaluation periods at all levels to verify progress and challenges, as well as promoting its approval and objectives in all possible scenarios.
Women's economic empowerment, media, education, prevention and social work, access to decision-making, legislation and law, sexual and reproductive health statistics and research are among the main fields of concern in this regard.