{"id":20660,"date":"2012-03-08T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T12:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2012\/03\/20120308_donne-2\/"},"modified":"2012-03-08T13:14:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T12:14:49","slug":"20120308_donne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2012\/03\/20120308_donne\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foreign Ministry\u2019s commitment on behalf of women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Today, 8 March, International Women\u2019s Day, Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has reiterated \u201cthe Ministry\u2019s complete and utter commitment to protecting and promoting the rights of women throughout the world\u201d<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Terzi underscored Italy\u2019s long-standing commitment on these issues. \u201cSince 1985 we have been party to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. [\u2026] Italy is also in the front line in combating the practice of female genital mutilation, and strongly supports women\u2019s role in peace and democratic transition processes\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Italy\u2019s Development Cooperation is particularly active in the campaign for Women\u2019s Empowerment and against Female Genital Mutilation. In Central America, for example, it is engaged in a regional project, in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, for economic empowerment and participation by women in local governance and development systems <\/P><br \/>\n<P>In Afghanistan, its \u201cInstitutional capacity building for gender equity\u201d project is designed to eradicate the conviction commonly held there that women are not good decision-makers. The project includes awareness-raising initiatives in communities in the provinces and seeks to involve religious leaders, who have a strong influence on Afghan public opinion.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, 8 March, International Women\u2019s Day, Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has reiterated \u201cthe Ministry\u2019s complete and utter commitment to protecting and promoting the rights of women throughout the world\u201d Terzi underscored Italy\u2019s long-standing commitment on these issues. \u201cSince 1985 we have been party to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,43],"class_list":["post-20660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-cooperazione-sviluppo","tag-diritti-umani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}