LAC: OAS opens forum on women today

The Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) of the Organisation of American States (OAS) will co-host the Second Hemispheric Forum “Women’s Full Citizenship for Democracy”, which will be held in Santo Domingo from today until Saturday.
This Second Hemispheric Forum seeks to identify and promote the political and state reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean needed to expedite the exercise of women’s full citizenship, through stimulating synergies that seek to achieve consensus, and joint activities between the executive, legislative and judicial branches, networks of women’s organisations, human rights organisations, and ombudsmen.
The defence of the political role of women is covered explicitly in the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which states that member states of the OAS should promote “the full and equal participation of women in the political structures of their countries as a fundamental element of the promotion and exercise of democratic culture.”

Read the complete story at Guyana Times, published 17 July 2012.