Canada’s Ambassador for Gender, Peace and Security, Jacqueline O’Neillis in Colombia with the aim of supporting the construction of the government’s feminist foreign policy.
Canada’s support, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is essential since it is a country “reference of good practices in the monitoring and measurement mechanisms of its international feminist assistance policy”.
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“The exchange of good practices will be very useful in defining the indicators and monitoring and measurement mechanisms that we will implement in the Colombian PEF”said the Foreign Office.
The senior official met with the director of economic, social and environmental affairs, Constanza Bejarano, and the gender adviser, Diana Parra.
The latter is the one who was appointed to formulate Colombia’s first feminist foreign policy. For this, meetings are organized with women’s organizations and members of the LGBTIQ+ population.
The above, as directed by the Chancellor himself, Alvaro Leyvasince November of last year, when the first advances were presented.
Photo: Chancellery
Support for a feminist foreign policy
“Personally and as Chancellor, my commitment is absolute. I have the honor of leading the foreign policy of our country, but I know that this leadership is incomplete if it is not done hand in hand with women and LGBTIQ + people”, said the head of the country at the time. Colombian diplomacy.
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Parra, in turn, insists that “feminist foreign policy cannot simply be a narrative, but is a mechanism that contains a set of principles and tools that guide state foreign policy to recognize, reduce and transform social norms and practices”. gender gaps and inequalities”.
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