Discurso do Representante Permanente Alterno, Embaixador Norberto Moretti, na Reunião de Alto Nível do Grupo de Amigos sobre Paridade de Gênero por ocasião da 69ª Sessão da Comissão sobre a Situação da Mulher (CSW69) - 7 de março de 2025 (texto em inglês)
Statement by the Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations, Ambassador Norberto Moretti, at the High Level Meeting of the Group of Friends on Gender Parity on the occasion of the 69th Session of the CSW
March 7th, 2025
Mr. Secretary-General,
Honourable Ministers,
Excellencies,
Distinguished colleagues,
As the 69th Session of the CSW session approaches and we focus on the review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action 30 years after its adoption, we must acknowledge the risk of setbacks in women's rights and our responsibility to keep advancing towards the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, including the full enjoyment of their human rights.
Parity is the very basis of policies aimed at addressing disparities. We view gender parity as a key component of broader gender equality, as it helps ensures equal access to opportunities, conditions, employment, education, as well as equal representation of women in political and economic power.
The cross-cutting nature of gender equality is a guideline in the development of public policies in Brazil, which expresses the priority given to such issue.
Under President Lula, the Ministry of Women was recreated in 2023, and policies to address all forms of violence against women have been enhanced.
Brazil’s National Care Policy, established last December, has the promotion of social and economic empowerment of women as one of its objectives, as it aims at a more equitable division of caregiving work, which has disproportionately burdened women. Additionally, we are currently implementing legislation passed in 2023 that ensures equal pay for women and men performing the same functions. A National Plan for Equal Pay and Labor Conditions was adopted in 2024.
Enhancing gender equality also calls for combating and eliminating various intersecting forms of discrimination, femicide, harassment, and all types of violence that women and girls, in all their diversity, encounter daily. Brazil has recently extended our pioneer femicide legislation to trans women and girls, who are often targeted by multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination.
At the international level, Brazil fully supports the United Nations-wide Strategy on Gender Parity. The needed reform of global governance must include gender parity in economic and political decision-making bodies. As President Lula noted in his statement at the General Debate of the General Assembly, the reform of global governance begins with achieving gender parity in the United Nations leadership.
More broadly, we strongly believe that Member States, international organizations and civil society should work together to promote positive cultural and social change towards the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action.
You may rest assured that Brazil will continue contributing to such changes in favor of gender equality and of a more equitable world for all, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
I thank you.