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The FEMP, performed at the V Meeting Spain-Africa Women for a Better World
The Secretary General of the FEMP, Isaura Leal, represented the FEMP in the V Meeting Spain-Africa Women for a Better World, held in Valencia on 27 and 28 March and attended by over 500 women from around the world, especially the African continent, which demanded recognition of their rights, equality and peace in that territory.
More than five hundred women from five continents in Valencia demanded recognition of their rights, and urged all governments to put on the political agenda to combat gender violence, to give greater participation to women and to end armed conflict, especially in Africa. It happened in the course of the V Meeting Spain-Africa Women for a Better World, framed in all activities of the Spanish Presidency of the EU, where the FEMP was represented by its General Secretary, Isaura Leal.
The meeting was opened by the Queen of Spain and was attended by Spanish First Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, the Presidents of Liberia and Finland, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Tarja Halonen, respectively, and the Deputy Secretary General UN, Asha-Rose Migiro.
Also participated in the policy debate around the world and experts who collected their findings in a document called Declaration of Valencia (see attachment), which also embodies the commitment to African women.
The meeting was closed by the Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who announced that during the presidency of the EU will promote new tools to fight at European level, the fight against gender violence, and expressed his support for equality as a "reality homogeneous across Europe," in rural and urban areas, in the professional field and in the family.
The meeting was opened by the Queen of Spain and was attended by Spanish First Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, the Presidents of Liberia and Finland, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Tarja Halonen, respectively, and the Deputy Secretary General UN, Asha-Rose Migiro.
Also participated in the policy debate around the world and experts who collected their findings in a document called Declaration of Valencia (see attachment), which also embodies the commitment to African women.
The meeting was closed by the Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who announced that during the presidency of the EU will promote new tools to fight at European level, the fight against gender violence, and expressed his support for equality as a "reality homogeneous across Europe," in rural and urban areas, in the professional field and in the family.
