The Diplomat in Spain

The Diplomat. 10/03/2018

The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID) yesterday held a debate on the international gender agenda in the aftermath of the historic mobilization of women in Spain last 8th March, and in which there was consensus about the fact that Spain has been a “world reference” on International Women’s Day, as said Mercedes Ruiz-Giménez, president of AIETI.

Journalist Lola Huete, as moderator of the talk, highlighted the “high” that supposes the support in the streets along the day, while the former Colombian minister and general secretary of the Ibero-American Social Security Organization, Gina Magnolia Riaño, asked to maintain the awareness about the need to equate men and women in rights.

In Latin America poverty has been reduced in recent years, but at the cost of “feminizing” the problem. While 47% of Latin American men receive a non-contributory pension, the percentage drops to 37% in the case of women, Riaño said.

Ana Peláez, Spanish candidate to UN Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), called for the promotion of “political legislation” after yesterday’s Women’s Day, because even today there are cases of “maximum exclusion” for women.