Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan affirmed that women today are an indispensable force in all processes at all levels of peace, security, social progress and sustainable development.
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan leads the Vietnamese delegation to attend the ECOSOC CSW68. (Source: VNA)
On the morning of March 11 (New York time), the opening ceremony of the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) took place at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) with the theme: "Accelerating gender equality and the empowerment of women and children, through poverty reduction, institutional strengthening and gender-responsive financing". Attending the Session were the President of Switzerland, the Prime Minister of Latvia, the Vice Presidents of Iran and Guatemala, the Deputy Prime Minister of Eswatini, more than 100 Ministers, and more than 15,000 delegates from UN member countries and non-governmental organizations. Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan led the Vietnamese delegation to the Session. The UN Secretary-General, Chairwoman of the Commission on the Status of Women, President of the UN General Assembly and Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality (UN Women) delivered opening remarks at the Session. UN leaders expressed concern about the slow progress in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, especially on hunger eradication and poverty reduction, emphasizing that 1 in 10 women are living in extreme poverty. Speakers said that women and girls in many parts of the world are not fully guaranteed their rights due to many backward customs, male-dominated ideology, gender prejudice and stereotypes, and are even abused in conflicts and crises, especially in the current conflict in the Gaza Strip. UN leaders emphasized the need to ensure finance and strengthen institutions to fully implement the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, increase women's economic empowerment, increase investment in education, end conflicts, consolidate peace, and comply with international human rights and humanitarian law. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the UN system has now achieved gender equality in leadership positions. UN General Assembly President Dennis Francis called for support and promotion of the role of women in responding to climate change. Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women Antonio Manuel Revilla Lagdameo said it is necessary to focus on improving and enhancing the effectiveness of the social protection system, ensuring access to public services and building sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and empowerment of women and girls. UN Women Executive Director Sima Sami Bahous stressed that women need to be involved in all processes related to development, finance, peace and security.
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Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan speaks at the opening session of ECOSOC CSW68. (Source: VNA)
Speaking at the session, Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan affirmed that women today are an indispensable force in all processes at all levels of peace, security, social progress and sustainable development. The Vice President said that it is necessary to focus on helping women to develop their full potential to participate in economic, political and social activities and further promote women's participation in political, economic, social and cultural decision-making mechanisms, especially in economics, in order to support more strongly and effectively the goal of hunger eradication, poverty reduction and livelihood security through start-ups and innovation. The Vietnamese delegation also highlighted the empowerment of women and girls in science, technology, digital transformation, linked to the prevention and combating of discrimination and violence in cyberspace, enhancing the role of women in building a peaceful, stable, inclusive and sustainable international environment, and addressing non-traditional security challenges, especially in responding to climate change. The head of the Vietnamese delegation suggested that countries and the UN should work together to promote partnerships for sustainable development, support financial resources and provide advice on institutional and policy building for developing countries, and enhance direct cooperation between organizations, business networks, experts and female role models, and increase sharing, dissemination and effective promotion of good practices. Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan highlighted some of Vietnam's achievements in gender equality, including the proportion of female National Assembly deputies accounting for 30.3%, the proportion of provinces with female key leaders accounting for 82.4%, the proportion of women of working age participating in the labor market at 70%, and nearly 30% of enterprises with female leaders. Informing international friends that last January, Vietnam issued the National Action Program on Women, Peace and Security, making a practical contribution to international efforts to promote this issue in the region and the world, the Vice President affirmed that Vietnam is always ready to cooperate closely with countries and partners for gender equality and empowerment of women and girls, leaving no one behind.
| The Commission on the Status of Women, established in 1946, is a functional committee of the United Nations Economic and Social Council with the mandate to recommend to the Council measures to promote women's rights in the economic, social, political and educational fields, as well as to monitor and review the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of 1995, the outcome of the 23rd Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2000. At the same time, the Commission has the mandate to provide policy advice, contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as well as emerging issues affecting gender equality and women's empowerment. The results and recommendations of each session are reported to ECOSOC. The CSW68 session is of great significance in the context of preparing for the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on the Empowerment of Women, promoting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially Goal 5 on achieving gender equality by 2030. Vietnam attaches special importance to ensuring gender equality and the advancement of women and has achieved many achievements in this field. Vietnam is considered one of the countries that has eliminated the gender gap fastest in the past 20 years, is one of the countries that has completed the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG 3) on gender equality early and is making efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Goals 5 and 10 on eliminating inequality, promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls. |
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