{"id":13733,"date":"2023-11-09T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T14:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13733"},"modified":"2023-11-09T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T14:47:26","slug":"guyana-surpasses-sdg-five-goal-for-gender-equality-affirms-president-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-surpasses-sdg-five-goal-for-gender-equality-affirms-president-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Surpasses SDG Five Goal for Gender Equality, Affirms President Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Guyana has exceeded the 2030 Women and Gender Equality (SDG 5) targets, marking a significant milestone on the path to achieving comprehensive gender parity by 2050. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali made this announcement during the commencement of the Ministerial Forum on Gender Equality and Empowerment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accomplishment can be attributed to the government&#8217;s unwavering emphasis on technical education for women, substantial investments in the Women\u2019s Innovation Network (WIN), and Board of Industrial Training initiatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, legislative frameworks have been redefined to create an enabling environment for gender equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to supporting, empowering, and facilitating opportunities for women to excel in high-impact sectors and positions of leadership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that women&#8217;s active participation in upholding democratic values, justice, peace, and security is essential for Guyana&#8217;s continued progress and prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, President Ali stressed that the endeavor to identify and eliminate barriers to gender equality must persist in order to address emerging contemporary challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He urged forum delegates to formulate policies and systems that cater to this imperative objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forum is being conducted under the theme &#8220;Shared experiences towards developing robust national and regional models for the 2030 Agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of three days, participants will exchange insights and strategies for advancing gender equality and empowerment at both national and regional levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Reported by Trichell Sobers for NCN News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana has exceeded the 2030 Women and Gender Equality (SDG 5) targets, marking a significant milestone on the path to achieving comprehensive gender parity by 2050. President Dr. Irfaan Ali&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news","category-one-guyana"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13735,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions\/13735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}