Around 70 professionals, local administration workers, associations, security forces, entities and interested people participated this Monday in the working day organized by the Government of the Canary Islands on the new Canary Islands Law for Equality between Women and Men.
The Minister of Social Welfare, Youth and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, Inés Rojas, highlighted during the inauguration the importance of this new article to make effective the exercise of rights and freedoms related to the effective equality of both sexes.
"On the one hand, explained Rojas, it was necessary to regulate normatively, in the autonomous scope of the Canary Islands, the application of certain principles, values, criteria and conditions already contemplated in the State Law and on the other, regulate the criteria that guide the action of the autonomous public powers in this matter".
"Our work", she stated, "should not end in the promulgation of an article full of good intentions, as we have already done in the Parliament of the Canary Islands. Now we must achieve the most complex thing: that where changes in mentality and unfair attitudes have not reached, the fulfillment of this Law reaches".
Rojas highlighted the importance of men actively participating, together with women, in achieving real equality between both sexes and encouraged the participants to sign the Charter of Men for Equality promoted by the Government of the Canary Islands.
Inés Rojas also informed that the Government of the Canary Islands is already developing its regulations and that with the aim of disseminating the content of the Law, conferences are being held on all the islands, which are financed by the European Social Fund.
Rojas highlighted the benefits of this Law that "claims the equality of women and men in all areas of life, employment, socio-political participation, economic autonomy, the enjoyment of their own time or the co-responsibility of both sexes in the family".
Round table
After the inauguration, in which the Councilor for Social Services of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Marci Acuña, and the director of the Canary Islands Institute for Equality, Isabel de Luis, also participated, Israel Expósito Suárez, senior graduate of the Studies and Documentation Service of the Presidency of the Government, spoke about the implications of the Law.
At 12 o'clock, the round table took place, moderated by the director of the Canary Islands Women's Institute, Isabel de Luis, and in which Flora Marrero Ramos (Canarian Coalition), Juan de San Genaro Santana Reyes and María Eulalia Guerra de Paz (PSOE) participated, who discussed the experience of the parliamentary committee for debate and processing of the amendments received to the PPL-002/2008.
