The 61st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) concluded on March 24 with the adoption of the Agreed Conclusions on “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work.”
Mexico’s delegation to the CSW was headed by the President of the National Women’s Institute (INMUJERES), Lorena Cruz, and by Mexico’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Juan José Gómez Camacho. The head of the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI), Nuvia Mayorga Delgado; officials from the Foreign and Labor Ministries; INMUJERES; and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI); legislators and members of various civil society organizations also participated.
During the session, Mexico actively promoted the adoption of the Agreed Conclusions and, especially, advocated to include the positive contributions made by women migrant workers in all areas but particularly in care and domestic work. Mexico also pressed for addressing anti-immigrant discrimination and rejecting measures and expressions that stigmatize them and exacerbate the vulnerability of women and girl migrants, especially.
Mexico also backed key issues related to the empowerment of women and girls that are on the national agenda and are also in line with the country’s international commitments, such as combating the many cross-cutting forms of discrimination faced by women and girls—especially migrant and indigenous women—throughout their lives; the need to ensure women’s economic rights; the need for statistics and indicators with a gender perspective; and access to reproductive and sexual health, among others.
INMUJERES President Lorena Cruz gave Mexico’s voluntary national presentation on the country’s progress and challenges in implementing the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls at the national level and ratifying the country’s commitment to the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. Lastly, Mexico organized a side event on “Statistics for Equality: A Requirement for Progress and Sustainable Development” which made evident Mexico’s leadership in this area.
The CSW is the principal multilateral forum dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. This year, the the commission reviewed the progress and challenges of implementing the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls as well as the empowerment of indigenous women. This priority issue was included because of a Mexican initiative presented during the last CSW session.
The Mexican delegation’s active participation in the CSW session reflects the Mexican government’s commitment to the human rights of women and girls and the increased multilateral focus on gender equality and the empowerment of women as part of the sustainable development of all nations.