Government Empowers Women, Girls, Youth and Vulnerable People – Cynthia Morrison

General News of Monday, March 18, 2019

Source: Frederick Ameyaw

2019-03-18

The Honorable Cynthia Maamle Morrison, Minister for Women's Protection, Children and Welfare, unveiled the Government of Ghana's policies and programs to empower women, girls, youth and vulnerable people .

She reported when she spoke at the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women on 12 March 2019 at United Nations headquarters in New York.

"The Government of Ghana builds and implements social systems to promote equity and access to the infrastructure and services needed to empower and promote the full development of women and girls," said the Minister. .

Social Protection Policy, National Gender Policy, School Feeding Policy, Free and Free Basic Education, Free High School, Children's Act, Disability Insurance Act, Law on Education. health insurance, national action plan for the elimination of child labor, national early work framework Child marriage and the strategic plan to combat teen pregnancy are laws designed to protect and promote women, girls, young people and vulnerable people.

Free SHS, planned for more than three hundred thousand students in 2017 and 2018, National Youth Employment gives skills and training to young people to make them fit for work, GETFUND, provides infrastructure and scholarships to students, The program of transfer of Poverty Relief Fund Nearly Two Million Hon. Morrison wanted beneficiaries, MASLOC, micro-businesses and other organizations to support vulnerable people, youth, girls and women.

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the world's largest intergovernmental body dedicated exclusively to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.

Technical Commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), it was established by Council Resolution 11 (II) of 21 June 1946.

The Commission on the Status of Women plays a key role in promoting women's rights by documenting the reality of women's lives around the world and by developing global standards for gender equality and women's empowerment .

The sixty-third session of the Commission (CSW63) started on 11 March and will end on 22 March 2019.

The Commission will address as a priority theme "Social Protection Systems, Access to Public Services and Sustainable Infrastructure for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls".

In addition, it will badess progress made in implementing the agreed conclusions of the sixtieth (2016) session on "Women's empowerment and the link with sustainable development".

The Commission will also consider an area of ​​intervention entitled "Women and girls of African descent". The ten-day session will include a ministerial segment with round tables and other high-level interactive dialogues, a general discussion, as well as interactive discussions and panel discussions.