African women’s economic emancipation on the agenda of French president Macron
Paris, France (PANA) – French president, Emmanuel Macron, who made gender equality a top priority for the French G7 presidency, has assigned the consultative council for gender quality new priorities among which is African women’s economic emancipation, official sources told PANA on Thursday in Paris.
In that respect, president Macron decided on the creation of a 120 million Euro fund every year to help the movements fighting for gender equality and female associations, particularly in the South, added the report made by the council of ministers of the French government.
Among the other priorities of the consultative council for gender equality, established in 2018 in Canada by Macron, are the fight against sexual and sexist violence and women and girls’ education.
Also, president Macron had in September 2018, before the UN General Assembly, called to make gender equality a big world cause.
Official sources added that in the weeks to come, France will be on the initiative for a unique partnership: the Biarritz partnership for gender equality and, in order to strengthen the fight against gender violence, France has also proposed to universalize the Istanbul convention on the prevention and fight against women’s violence.
The Istanbul convention, signed in the Turkish capital in 2011, is a convention of the European Council on the prevention and fight against women and domestic violence, which demands that the different types of violence against women, such as domestic violence, psychological violence and harassment, particularly sexual, become criminal offence attracting legal sanctions.
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