VATICAN CITY, 9 MAR 2010 (VIS). Yesterday in New Yok, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See has intervened in the MIA session of the Commission on the Status of Women of the Economic and Social Council (following the Fourth World Conference " Women 2000.
Gender equality, development and peace for the XXI Century "). Mgr.Celestino Migliore said that if the debate had clarified, it also showed disturbing gray areas: "Progress has been obtained by the world these past 15 years on the status of women in girls' education and promotion of women, as primary agents for the eradication of poverty and development, but also by increasing their participation in the life and social policy to eliminate discrimination and domestic violence. "specific laws" emphasize the vital role that women play in society, protect their dignity, their rights and duties. Despite this they continue to suffer in many parts of the world ".
Then the representative of the Holy See has said we could not underestimate the violence against women that constitute abortion, infanticide and child abandonment, as well as discrimination in health and food, while two-thirds of illiterates are women over 15 years. "It is sad to note that three quarters of AIDS patients are girls between 15 and 24 years, that half of victims of international trafficking in human beings is composed of miners, 70% female. All this follows from the backward socio-cultural dynamics, but also slow policy.
"Gender equality in education and employment has also resulted in manipulation of the concept of gender equality in defense of social rights ... Focused on the ideological level this equality leads to a regression instead of feminine dignity. On the other hand, recent papers point to interpret the kind of dissolve any specificity, any complementarity between women and men. If these theories can not change the nature of things, they hinder any real progress in the recognition of the dignity and rights of women ".
Mgr.Migliore then recalled that the documents of international conferences or committees insist on the "link between achievement of personal rights, socio-economic and political concept of health sexual and reproductive rights. This is an abuse beings in gestation while attacking the real needs of women and men. A solution that respects the dignity of woman to ignore the right to motherhood, to be promoted and not compromised by improving health systems and in particular maternity services. "In 1995, he concluded, "The Beijing Platform had proclaimed the inalienable rights of women, as indivisible and universal human rights. That is a basis for understanding the specific dignity of women and girls but also to make it a reality in the world. "
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