Topic: 2024-Gender Equality in Rural Areas
Country: Canada
Delegate Name: Sage England
Gender Equality in Rural Areas is required in setting equivalent standards for women and men across the globe, ensuring equal treatment, education, land, and finance, and opportunities in general. The Dominion of Canada is involved in this issue due to the country’s commitment to human rights and global equality. Gender Equality in Rural Areas is an issue as of recent due to gender inequality, unequal opportunities, and gender-based discrimination violence. The United Nations has developed certain initiatives to combat this issue, such as the ‘UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’ (CEDAW), the ‘UN’s Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs’, and certain United Nations Women’s initiatives in itself. Gender Equality in Rural Areas leads to health, happiness, peace, security, fairness, economic prosperity, and other limitless possibilities. Gender Equality promotes the world uniting as a nation, not a gender.
Gender Equality in Rural Areas remains an issue in The Dominion of Canada despite the amendments made to reinforce gender equality. The central issues include the access to healthcare and services, gender based violence, the gender pay gap, and underrepresentation in leadership. The Dominion of Canada’s policy on Gender Equality in Rural Areas is guided by our commitment to human rights, social justice, and inclusivity. We brought attention to this issue for public support, as well as implementing, reinforcing, and funding the ‘Gender Based Analysis Plus’, which assesses the impacts of policies, programs, and legislation on diverse groups of people. This ensures gender considerations are central to decision-making, engaging Canadian ‘Civil Society Organizations’ on key gender equality issues. ‘Women Entrepreneurship Strategy’, which works to close the gender gap in employment, entrepreneurship, and STEM fields, The ‘Pay Equity Act’, which ensures all workers pay of equal value, as well as the ‘National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence’, focuses on prevention, support for survivors, and addressing systemic causes of violence. In Canada, the foundation of gender equality can be found in the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the right to equality is protected by ‘Federal Gender Equality Laws’. We work throughout Canadian provinces and territories to implement these values and calls to action across The Dominion of Canada. Globally, The Dominion of Canada has been recognized as a world leader in advancing gender equality by participating in the ‘United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’ and negotiating the Agreed Conclusions, helping advanced the rights of women globally, submitting Canada’s tenth report under the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, continuing Canada’s participation as a member of the Inter-American Commission of Women within the Organization of American States, and supporting efforts to advance women’s economic empowerment in the G7, G20, and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Government officials in The Dominion of Canada who have addressed this issue include Justin Trudea, Prime Minister, Maryam Monsef, Former Minister of Women and Gender Equality, Marci Ien, Current Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Ahmed Hussen, Minister of International Development, and Karina Gould, Minister of Families, Children, and Social Development. Organizations The Dominion of Canada is united with the United Nations, United Nations Women, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, UNICEF, the United Nations Security Council, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, G7, G20, the International Labour Organization, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the World Bank. Women in rural areas are responsible for half of the world’s food production while working as environmental and biodiversity stewards, and are our pillars for achieving the transformational economic, environmental and social changes required for sustainable development. Their limited access to health care, education, and finances are a few issues among the many they face, which further strain them due to the global food and economic crises and climate change. We undervalue these women and their work, not appreciating what they do for our world and society as a whole.
Decent progress has been made in the issue of Gender Equality in rural areas, although it is still imperfect. The Dominion of Canada strives to promote gender equality and equal opportunity, and with the assistance of resolutions such as the Resolutions on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Rural Women, the Human Rights Council Resolutions on Gender and Sexual Orientation, and the Resolution on Eliminating Violence Against Women and Girls, we aim to provide equal healthcare, finance, and opportunity to women in rural areas, promoting equality as a whole. The Dominion of Canada is capable and working to reach the goal of unity and equality across the world. We are willing to bring all countries together to work towards a world that can see everyone, man, woman, young, old, straight, LGBTQIA+, as equal.
