Manastirliu at the 66th Session of the UN Commission on Women: Increasing women’s participation in decision-making, key to long-term crisis resolution

In her speech, Manastirliu expressed the commitment of the Albanian government to implement gender budgeting at all levels, in order to reduce the gender gap and empower women.

“We are working to improve capacity at the national and local level, in order to adequately budget and monitor expenditures for the implementation of national commitments in terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment,” said Manastirliu.

During her speech at the UN, Minister Manastirliu spoke about the importance of the role of women in the light of global crises.

“The diversity of the nature of these crises, from a global health pandemic to wars and climate change, adds to the challenges for women.

And in order to have long-term solutions to the growing crises, it is necessary to increase women’s participation in decision-making processes at all levels of government. In Albania, 70% of government ministers are women, while the number of women MPs and those in municipal councils has increased. Gender inequalities and climate change are intertwined and are now universally recognized as the greatest challenges to sustainable development, but violent conflicts with tragic consequences, such as the ones we are witnessing in the heart of Europe, significantly increase and escalate these challenges. ato ”, said Manastirliu.

During her speech at this Session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations, Manastirliu said that the Albanian government has a key priority in empowering women.

“Increasing women’s empowerment and gender equality remains a key priority for Albania. I am pleased to say that my country has made steady progress in implementing SDG 5 over the past years thanks to investments in general and vocational education, employment services, health care, as well as housing and social services. affordable “, said Manastirliu.

The 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which is working at the United Nations in New York, attended by ministers and senior representatives of 134 states, aims to reconfirm international conventions on the elimination of all forms of violence against women. grave.

In this session it is expected to have concrete recommendations the establishment of a mechanism to ensure an international and contemporary legal framework for the empowerment of women and girls, towards achieving gender equality, in the context of climate change and environmental policies and programs, as well as those for disaster risk reduction.

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