Voicing concerns over growing gender inequality, India has asked the international community for a collective action to fight the evil.
Addressing the ongoing session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Indian UN Ambassador Nirupam Sen said the achievement of Millennium Development Goal to attain gender equality and empowerment of women would largely depend on international community’s collective efforts in timely allocation of necessary financial resources.
Women are agents of social justice and social change and without their full emancipation, there would be no social progress, Sen said on Monday.
“While primary responsibility for allocation of finances rests with the country concerned, it has been recognised that the international community should match up to its commitment by provision of new and additional financial resources, transfer of technology, sharing of experiences, expertise, information and data, technical cooperation and capacity-building,” he added.
Referring to steps being taken by India for women’s empowerment, Sen said gender equity and equality has been a key guiding principle of government’s policies.
“India’s planning process is fully committed to enabling women to be equal partners in development,” he said, adding, the delegates that a separate Department for Women and Child Development, created in 1985, has been upgraded to a Central Ministry in 2005.
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