Initiative in the field of gender equality is not treated legally in the Slovakia, our strategy is governed by the 13 March 2008 European Parliament resolution on gender equality and empowering women in development cooperation with regard to:
- 8 March 2007 European Commission announcement about gender equality and empowering women position in development cooperation
- The conclusions of the General Affairs and External Relations Council and representatives of the EU Member States Council Government Representatives, adopted on 14 May 2007 on gender equality and empowering women position in development cooperation
- To the 21 April 2004 European Parliament and EU Council Regulation (hereinafter ES) No. 806/2004 on promoting gender equality in development cooperation
- EC Treaty Article 2, Article 3 section 2, and Articles 137 and 141,
- The EU Fundamental Rights Charter proclaimed in 2000 and in particular Article 23,
- To the 18 December 1979 United Nations (hereinafter UN) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (hereinafter CEDAW),
- The fourth World Conference on Women held in September 1995 in the Beijing. Declaration and Platform for Action adopted in Beijing and the following outcome documents adopted at the special United Nations meeting on further measures at Beijing +5 and Beijing + 10 adopted on 9 June 2000 and 11 March 2005
- To the Millennium Development Goals (hereinafter MDGs), adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000, and in particular the Millennium Development Goal of promoting gender equality and empower women as a precondition to overcome hunger, poverty and diseases, achieve equality at all levels of education and in all areas of work, equal control of resources and equal representation in public and political life,
- To the Commission's report on the Millennium Development Goals Report 2000 - 2004 (SE K(2004) 1379),
- The Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Employment in March 2000 and other documents.
In European consensus on the development the gender equality is identified as a common principle, where is stated that the EU to all its policies and practical relations with developing countries will include a significant component of equity (Part I - Article 19), and the Cotonou Agreement clearly emphasizes the value of gender equality, saying that the cooperation should help to improve women's access to all resources required to fully exercise their fundamental rights (Article 31);
In the the Beijing Platform for Action supporting gender mainstreaming as an effective strategy to promote gender equality is written that governments and other subjects should promote an active and visible policy of the gender perspective in all policies and programs so that before the adoption of decisions should be made analysis of their impact particularly on women and men.
Since approximately two-thirds of the work in the world is done by women and girls with the return less than 5% of income, whereas on the basis of women's work is produced half the food in the world and nearly 74% of unemployed women in particular, take care of the household work and family, compared with 27% of unemployed men.
Whereas the 1.3 billion people living in absolute poverty are women 70% and poverty is not just a symptom, but also cause of an unequal distribution of income, assets, resources, market power and the right of disposal, whereas the EU promotes gender equality and women's rights in development cooperation through a dual approach of gender mainstreaming and specific measures to promote women's rights and empowerment.
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