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General Assembly Distr.: General Seventieth Session 24 November 2015 United Nations A/C.3/70/SR.10 General Assembly Distr.: General Seventieth session 24 November 2015 Official Records Original: English Third Committee Summary record of the 10th meeting Held at Headquarters, New York, on Tuesday, 13 October 2015, at 10 a.m. Chair: Mr. Dempsey (Vice-Chair) ....................................... (Canada) Contents Agenda item 29: Advancement of women (continued) (a) Advancement of women (continued) (b) Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (continued) This record is subject to correction. Corrections should be sent as soon as possible, under the signature of a member of the delegation concerned, to the Chief of the Documents Control Unit ([email protected]), and incorporated in a copy of the record. Corrected records will be reissued electronically on the Official Document System of the United Nations (http://documents.un.org/). 15-17695 (E) *1517695* A/C.3/70/SR.10 In the absence of Mr. Hilale (Morocco), Mr. Dempsey promotion of the rights of domestic workers. Her (Canada), Vice-Chair, took the Chair. country was committed to assisting other States with implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action by The meeting was called to order at 10.10 a.m. providing official development assistance and special assistance for programmes and projects for women. It Agenda item 29: Advancement of women (continued) supported United Nations efforts to end the use of (A/70/38 and A/70/124) sexual violence as a tool of war and to provide assistance to women in the Syrian refugee camps in (a) Advancement of women (continued) (A/70/204, Jordan. The Sheikha Fatima Fund for Refugee Women A/70/205, A/70/209 and A/C.3/70/3) and Children provided a decent life for women and (b) Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth children victims of crises and disasters. World Conference on Women and of the 3. Ms. Rodríguez Pineda (Guatemala) said that it twenty-third special session of the General was time to redouble efforts for the advancement of Assembly (continued) (A/70/180) women, while ensuring that men and boys were 1. Ms. Al-salami (United Arab Emirates) said that involved in the process. Her delegation welcomed the the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development inclusion of an independent Sustainable Development included a call for the incorporation of both a stand- Goal on achieving gender equality and empowering alone goal on gender equality and women’s women and girls. To achieve that Goal, it would be empowerment and a gender perspective in all of the necessary to address multidimensional poverty; Sustainable Development Goals. At the Global Leaders improve access to affordable housing, health services, Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s safe drinking water and credit; and ensure women’s Empowerment, held to commemorate the twentieth active participation in decisions affecting their well- anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Platform for being. In the absence of opportunities, women became Action, more than 80 heads of State and Government had vulnerable to human trafficking and sexual affirmed their commitment to closing the gender gap and exploitation, as well as sexual harassment in the empowering women. The United Nations Entity for workplace and domestic employment under conditions Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women that violated their basic rights. Providing education and (UN-Women) had organized the meeting and played a training for women could open the doors to secure leading role in implementing the Beijing Platform for employment. Furthermore, quality education empowered Action. Her delegation would be hosting a special event not only the learner but also future generations. Gender- on 14 October to celebrate the release of the Global based discrimination impeded women’s access to justice, Study on the implementation of United Nations which was essential for the realization of her rights and Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), organized the construction of just and peaceful societies. In that jointly with the Group of Friends of the Global Study. connection, her delegation welcomed general In recent weeks, her country’s mission had held a recommendation No. 33 of the Committee on the series of symposiums on women, peace and security in Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the cooperation with the Georgetown Institute for Women, subject of women’s access to justice. Peace and Security, which had produced 4. Ms. Rubiales de Chamorro (Nicaragua) said recommendations for incorporation into the Global that her Government’s commitment to gender equality Study. Earlier in the year, the United Arab Emirates had was evident in the recently adopted family code. Its hosted a meeting of experts in reproductive, maternal, policies, practices and projects had done much to newborn, child and adolescent health in cooperation restore the rights of women, who benefited, inter alia, with the United Nations Population Fund. The Abu from free education and health care, maternity homes, Dhabi Declaration had been issued at that meeting. women’s counselling offices, women’s police units and 2. Recent accomplishments at the national level programmes to assist families. Women were equitably included the launch of the National Strategy for the represented in elected and appointed offices. In fact, Empowerment of Emirati Women in the United Arab according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2014 of Emirates, 2015-2021; the establishment of the Gender the World Economic Forum, Nicaragua ranked Balance Council; and the drafting of a resolution on alongside the Nordic countries for gender equality, 2/12 15-17695 A/C.3/70/SR.10 thanks to its solid performance in health, education and 7. Mr. Rattray (Jamaica) said that his country was political and economic participation. Strategies to endeavouring to meet its obligations and goals for protect women and girls had resulted in a decline in gender equality by, for example, revising its National complaints of violence and abuse. The Government Policy for Gender Equality and improving its social had established community counselling offices, which protection programmes. In the area of health care, it aimed to promote the early detection and resolution of had made notable progress in preventing mother-to- problems through dialogue, in full compliance with child transmission of HIV and reducing maternal and due process of law. It would continue to promote the infant mortality. In education, it had achieved gender ideals of Christianity and socialism and to base its parity at the primary and secondary levels, while policies and programmes on a shared-responsibilities women accounted for around 70 per cent of tertiary- model that empowered women to be agents of change. level students. Technical and vocational training institutions had intensified efforts to bridge the gap in 5. Ms. Abdullah (Iraq) said that her country’s women’s participation in the workforce, particularly in Constitution enshrined the principles of equality and non-traditional areas. Jamaica had long ago enacted equal participation in all areas of life, including with legislation on equal pay for equal work and maternity respect to wages and public posts, and established a leave with pay, and it had the highest percentage of 25-per-cent quota for the representation of women in women managers in the world. However, the proportion the Council of Representatives. Subsequent laws had of women in positions of political leadership still granted women gender-specific privileges such as lagged behind, prompting Parliament to establish a joint maternity leave. The Government had adopted a select committee to make recommendations on the national strategy for the advancement of women, as subject. well as strategies on women’s health and on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 8. With respect to violence against women, Jamaica (2000) on women, peace and security. Gender units had was finalizing a national strategic plan of action to been established in all ministries. eliminate gender-based violence, focusing on prevention, protection, prosecution, punishment and redress. 6. Iraq had also adopted a national strategy to Increased collaboration between State institutions was combat violence against women. It had established streamlining the response to acts of violence and special domestic violence courts and family police ensuring that perpetrators were held to account. Jamaica units. Shelters for abused women were operating continued to support the work of non-governmental throughout Iraq, and pro bono legal services were organizations in gender-related areas. available for vulnerable women. Deplorably, terrorist organizations, including Islamic State in Iraq and the 9. Mr. Canay (Turkey) said that the equality of Levant, had seized some areas of Iraq, where they had women and men before the law was one of the basic committed horrific crimes against women and young principles of the Turkish Constitution, which had girls, including murder, kidnapping, trafficking and recently been amended to introduce the concept of rape. They had also carried out public executions of positive discrimination for vulnerable groups such as women who had been active in politics or who had women, children and persons with disabilities. An active worked in the media or in the legal or medical contributor to international efforts for the advancement professions. In the face of such violence, many of women,
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