They carry out seminary legislation on women's rights
SANTO DOMINGO.- The roles and challenges of the legislation that guarantees the rights of women were analyzed on Tuesday by representatives from the health, education and justice sectors with legislators and representatives of civil society, in a seminar convened by the Center for Gender Studies of INTEC (CEG-INTEC) and the Gender Equality Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
At the meeting, topics on the legal framework in the reorientation of gender relations were discussed and proposals were presented for the guarantee of the exercise of sexual rights, reproductive rights and attention to violence.
The Seminar "Legislation guaranteeing women's rights. Roles and challenges of the education, health and justice sectors "served as a scenario to debate the role of the education sector in the prevention of violence against women, comprehensive sexual education, teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
The activity, which took place on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, is part of the Voices for Women's Rights project, which is carried out PROFAMILIA and CEG-INTEC, with funding from the European Union, an organization that was represented by Marta Ramírez, in charge of programs.
In addition to promoting the exchange of ideas among government institutions, congressmen and representatives of organized sectors of civil society, the forum was held with the purpose of generating and socializing useful knowledge to sensitize and mobilize key social actors and all citizens around the world. actions that guarantee the rights of women.
The presentations
Magda Rodríguez, president of the Gender Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, analyzed the role of legal frameworks in the reorientation of gender relations. The executive director of PROFAMILIA, Magaly Caram, addressed the topic "Sexual rights, reproductive rights and attention to violence. Lilliam Fondeur, of the Ministry of Public Health, referred to the consequences in the lives of women of the recently approved Penal Code and Sergia Garván, coordinator of the Women and Health Collective, referred to the necessary changes in legislation to address health sexual and reproductive and, in particular, what is related to the demand for the decriminalization of abortion when a woman's life is in danger.
Desiree del Rosario, academic coordinator of CEG-INTEC, spoke about the expectations of civil society regarding attention to violence from the judicial system.
The opening was in charge of the CEG-INTEC coordinator, Lourdes Contreras, who highlighted that the seminar was trying to promote a dialogue between peers. “On the one hand, women and organizations demanding rights, and on the other hand, deputies, in their legislative responsibility, to guarantee the exercise of rights or to supervise the other public powers, and also consider projects such as the one created by the comprehensive system of attention to violence and sexual health and reproductive health, which summon us at this time ”.
Contreras hopes that this space of exchange can serve to rethink the need for economic, political and cultural transformations of the human condition, conceived from the laws that regulate coexistence.