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"The decree clarifies the educational content but the spirit of the law is the same". The under-secretary of education and active life of the Ministry of Education, María Fernanda Porras, said yesterday on the reform issued last Thursday by President Lenin Moreno, which eliminates terms such as " gender mainstreaming "," new "and" women in their diversity ", which have been included in the regulations of the law to prevent and eliminate violence against women.
The reform of the fifth transitional decree (Decree 460) indicates that the governing bodies of public policy in basic, secondary and higher education, they will have to develop and / or update curricula for all levels educational and instructional manuals and guides that include "gender equality in all political, economic and social spheres; sociocultural construction on the roles and values badociated with the behavior of men free of machismo or supremacy towards women (…). "
Porras stated that the executive decree maintains the same spirit of the law, which is to prevent and eradicate violence against women, and clarify certain terms for better understanding.
The regulation gives a period of 180 days for this elaboration and / or update.According to the official, the Ministry of Education has started two weeks of discussions with various sectors of the academy, with civil society organizations that deal with the protection and guarantee of rights, parents, federations of religious schools and media. "Porras said that updating the curriculum is not a short-term process.
The terms new masculinities and women in their diversity, who have been eliminated, have been criticized by groups who denounced "indoctrination of the gender" Mandatory ", linked to the GLBTI community
P Orras explained that on the basis of United Nations texts, new masculinities are "forms of relationship between men and women that what they are trying to do is to untie violence, to make these practices non-chauvinistic. not badist, do not discriminate and do not exercise power relations or supremacy. "
The mini Justice, Rosana Alvarado, said about this term that it was" a harmless word that is part of the language of the United Nations, which is in law, the regulation does not ". was not a word of more or less "
.With this adjustment, we have tried to avoid the distortions that, with the anti-right campaigns, have scandalized people for no reason." The parameters I recognize . If so, we avoid this campaign of fear, disinformation or adjustment, "he said.
Meanwhile, the National Front for the Family, which led the march against this law by the president
The archdiocese of Guayaquil made it clear that they are not the organizers of the march called for this week. (I)
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