- Freitag, 04. März 2011 12.30 – 14.30 Uhr In meinem Kalender speichern
How to promote gender equality within the scope of European Union and Latin America and Caribbean (EU-LAC) relations?
BÖLL LUNCH DEBATE
The next EU-LAC Summit will take place in Santiago de Chile in May 2012. On the last summit in Madrid, the European and Latin American heads of state and government agreed to develop a dialogue on how to integrate gender issues into every aspect of the international agenda as well as to take every necessary measure to prevent and eradicate all kinds of gender-based violence.
Gender equality is a fundamental EU and Latin American value. By issuing guidelines on violence against women the EU states its clear political will to prevent violence against women, to protect and support the victims and to prosecute the perpetrators of such violence. This is underlined by a declaration of High Representative Catherine Ashton that expresses the EU’s concern on feminicide in Latin America. A judgment of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights on the socalled Cottonfield case helps to advance the legal interpretation of feminicide and defines adequate measures that are to be taken to eradicate the phenomenon.
The run-up to the EU-LAC Summit is the right moment to put these commitments into practice and thus to promote gender equality within the biregional dialogue: How do the EU and Latin America intend to put their words into action? What role is the issue supposed to play on the EULAC Summit 2012 and within the newly created EU-LAC Foundation based in Hamburg? And
what can and should the European External Action Service contribute to promote gender equality
and combat discrimination and violence against women?
Speakers:
- Juan Angulo, Coordinator External Policies, Embassy of Chile in Belgium, Mission of Chile to the EU
- Silvia Escobar, Ambassador at large for Human Rights from the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
- Engelbert Theuermann, Chair of the Council of the EU Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) (TBC)
Moderator:
Patricia Jiménez, Director Global Dialogue Programme Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union
With the participation of Latin American women’s rights defenders: Andrea Medina Rosas (Comité Latinoamericano y del Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer, CLADEM) and Carmen Otilia Reina (Copenhagen Initiative for Central America and Mexico, CIFCA).
Gender equality is a fundamental EU and Latin American value. By issuing guidelines on violence against women the EU states its clear political will to prevent violence against women, to protect and support the victims and to prosecute the perpetrators of such violence. This is underlined by a declaration of High Representative Catherine Ashton that expresses the EU’s concern on feminicide in Latin America. A judgment of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights on the socalled Cottonfield case helps to advance the legal interpretation of feminicide and defines adequate measures that are to be taken to eradicate the phenomenon.
The run-up to the EU-LAC Summit is the right moment to put these commitments into practice and thus to promote gender equality within the biregional dialogue: How do the EU and Latin America intend to put their words into action? What role is the issue supposed to play on the EULAC Summit 2012 and within the newly created EU-LAC Foundation based in Hamburg? And
what can and should the European External Action Service contribute to promote gender equality
and combat discrimination and violence against women?
Speakers:
- Juan Angulo, Coordinator External Policies, Embassy of Chile in Belgium, Mission of Chile to the EU
- Silvia Escobar, Ambassador at large for Human Rights from the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
- Engelbert Theuermann, Chair of the Council of the EU Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) (TBC)
Moderator:
Patricia Jiménez, Director Global Dialogue Programme Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union
With the participation of Latin American women’s rights defenders: Andrea Medina Rosas (Comité Latinoamericano y del Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer, CLADEM) and Carmen Otilia Reina (Copenhagen Initiative for Central America and Mexico, CIFCA).