The Ministry of Tradition, Gender, Leisure and Sport will likely be staging a raft of actions in the course of the month of March to commemorate Worldwide Ladies’s Day and have fun Jamaican girls and their achievements.
Portfolio Minister, Honourable Olivia Grange, made the announcement at a particular post-Cupboard Press Briefing held at Jamaica Home on Tuesday (March 4).
Worldwide Ladies’s Day is a worldwide occasion recognised yearly on March 8, and this yr’s theme is ‘Speed up Motion’.
Minister Grange stated native celebrations will span all the month beneath the theme: ‘A celebration of Jamaican Ladies’.
She implored Jamaicans to acknowledge and embrace the ladies of their lives on the big day.
“That is one thing that we should always do as a part of our day by day routine, however Worldwide Ladies’s Day is an event and a chance to particularly encourage, affirm, have fun and simply embrace the ladies in our lives, in our workplaces, in our numerous sectors, in our communities and in our nation,” she stated.
She highlighted the beneficial properties made through the years in enabling girls to succeed in their full potential, whereas noting that extra must be performed.
“You possibly can inform an important deal a couple of nation by the way in which it treats its girls and its youngsters. The standing that they occupy within the hierarchy of the society is normally an excellent indicator of whether or not the nation is progressive or backward. Talking as somebody who has been a soldier on this battle for gender equality, I can attest to many successes in our lengthy wrestle,” Minister Grange stated.
She stated that among the successes are mirrored in the present day in society the place women and younger girls could make decisions and choices with out fear that they are going to be barred attributable to their gender.
“Issues have modified for girls and women, significantly beneath this Administration. In so some ways we see the fruit of our collective work to create a nation that values girls and women and allows them to realize their potential and contribute to nation-building in any approach they select. In Jamaica, in the present day, a younger lady is free to make her decisions and to stay as a liberated, assured girl,” the Minister identified.
Actions for Worldwide Ladies’s Day embrace a 5k/10k run/stroll in partnership with the European Union (EU) in downtown Kingston on March 9 to handle the problem of gender-based violence.
A delegation of private and non-private representatives, led by Minister Grange, will attend the United Nations (UN) 69th session of the Fee on the Standing of Ladies (CSW69) in New York, United States, between March 10 and 21.
Moreover, an awards ceremony to have fun excellent girls will likely be held to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Motion, which a worldwide settlement that goals to realize gender equality and ladies’s rights.
The Ladies’s Entrepreneurship Expo, to showcase the abilities and expertise of ladies within the micro, small and medium-size enterprise (MSME) sector is slated for mid-March.
The month of actions to mark Worldwide Ladies’s Day obtained beneath approach on Sunday (March 2) on the Church of the Open Bible, Washington Boulevard, Kingston.
– JIS
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