Female genital mutilation and child early and forced marriage (Caroline Meenagh)
Channel: Emakunde
Date: 2019-01-16

Extract of Caroline Meenagh's (UN Women) presentation at the closing event of the "Joint global programme on essential services for women and girls subject to violence" held in Lehendakaritza (Presidency of the Basque Country) on January 9th 2019.

Listen the full presentation: https://youtu.be/L035nvO0f30

Other presentations of the event:

- Izaskun Landaida Larizgoitia, Director of Emakunde-Basque Institute for Women: https://youtu.be/inw_F5LPgk8 (in Basque and Spanish)
- María Teresa Bejarano (UNFPA): https://youtu.be/eFo71jQKxMc (in Spanish)
- Iñigo Urkullu Renteri, President of the Basque Country: https://youtu.be/Gcr7Cr7YVOk (in Basque and Spanish)

Video: Irekia (Basque Government): https://goo.gl/zAE2yG shared under CC-BY-3.0 ES license: https://goo.gl/afGq9k

More information about the event at our blog:
• In Basque: https://goo.gl/WVyPYz
• In Spanish: https://goo.gl/bfWnQ9

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Who we are?

Emakunde, the Basque Institute for Women, is an autonomous body of the Basque Government which designs, promotes, advises on, coordinates and evaluates equality policies and raises awareness within society in order to achieve the real and effective equality of women and men in the Basque Autonomous Community.

What we do?

The two most important areas of activity of the institute are, on the one hand, working with public administrations, consolidating the structures for promoting equality within them and promoting the implementation of gender mainstreaming measures in all public policies, and, on the other hand, working with society in general, promoting the empowerment of women, equality in private companies, the prevention of violence against women, offering advice and defence in cases of discrimination and raising awareness within society in favour of equality.

a) Equality in public policy: 

Emakunde promotes, advises on, coordinates and monitors the policies of public institutions (health, education, economy, employment, culture, social services, security, urban planning ...) in relation to the equality of women and men.

• Equality policies for women and men in the Basque Autonomous Community: https://goo.gl/BrNWV4 (PDF, 500 KB)
• 4/2005 Equal Opportunities between Men and Women Act of 18 Februar: https://goo.gl/A7h4kPy (PDF, 178 KB)
• Financing and accountability for gender equality: The case of the autonomous region of the Basque Country: https://goo.gl/iqTY4d (PDF, 400 KB)

b) Equality in private companies and organisations:

Emakunde promotes measures for private companies and other entities to incorporate equality policies in their internal organisation and in the services they provide.

• Support service for businesses to promote the equality of women a men: https://goo.gl/djV8wa (PDF, 2.5 MB)

c) Advocacy: 

Emakunde is responsible for defending the rights of female and male citizens in situations of gender discrimination in the private sector, complementing the work carried out in the public sector by the Basque ombudsman (Ararteko) in this area.

d) Empowerment and participation:

Emakunde encourages women to become aware of the inequalities that affect them and promotes their personal, collective and socio-political empowerment.

e) Violence against women:

Emakunde promotes programmes to prevent violence against women, proposes intervention policies, and coordinates and evaluates care services for women who suffer this type of violence, which are provided directly by government departments and the provincial and local institutions, in accordance with their respective competences.

• Institutional response to violence against women in the Basque Country: https://goo.gl/a4KeuP (PDF, 500 KB)
• What should we do in cases of violence against women? A guide to resources and services: https://goo.gl/6F3kDh (PDF, 600 KB)

f) Changing values:
 
Emakunde conducts workshops, courses and seminars, as well as campaigns, forums and communicative activities that seek to sensitize and raise awareness within society in favour of a change of values to promote the equality of women and men and the elimination of roles and stereotypes that prevent this. It also carries out studies and compiles statistics, produces publications and advises on the study and research of gender relations and their impact on society. 

• Nahiko. Coeducational programme for equality, respect and non-violence. Primary Education: https://goo.gl/2sCvgG (PDF, 547 KB)
• Begira. Advisory commission for a non-sexist use of publicity and communication: https://goo.gl/4VHGBN (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• Gizonduz, an initiative to involve men in gender equality: https://goo.gl/NohuCN (PDF)

More information about us: http://www.emakunde.euskadi.eus and http://emakunde.blog.euskadi.eus/