Tuesday 24. Margarita Zavala, director of DIF, participated in the conference addressing gender and human rights for young people. She stated that women have more scope to advance further than their mothers and grandmothers ever dreamed; however, there discrimination is still an obstacle.
She considers migration to be an element that develops towns, but when it is seen as a threat it closes opportunities for the young.
Faiza Benhadid, coordinator of the Center for Arab Women Training and Research(CAWTAR), expressed that the subject of gender should matter to young people who live at the mercy of a global society. It would seem that conforming to norms is the only way to achieve autonomy. Adolescence is a time during which autonomy is acquired, but sometimes it arrived belatedly because of the manner in which values were instilled. Maturity varies depending on the culture and on the social norms known in adulthood.
She added that from a human right´s perspective a breach has formed between gender and culture. In this session moderated by Inés Alberdi, executive director of UNIFEM, it was agreed that the subject of gender of of global importance and that discrimination is one of the biggest dilemmas facing young people, as well as the absence of programs which provide skills needed to face today´s problems. The eradication of child labor is necessary because it lends itself to exploitation.
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