Panel 2: Accelerators to promote the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in synergy with the Regional Gender Agenda

Moderator: Kirk Humphrey, Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs of Barbados

• Jamie Saunders, Director of the Directorate of Gender Affairs within the Ministry of Health, Wellness, Social Transformation and the Environment of Antigua and Barbuda

• Miosotis Rivas Peña, Director-General of the National Statistics Office of the Dominican Republic and Chair of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC (Intervention - available in Spanish)

• Tamara Ospina Posse, Vice-Minister for Women, Ministry of Equality and Equity of Colombia (virtual)

• Dulce Patricia Torres Sandoval, member of the Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas (CONAMI), representing the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas (ECMIA) (Intervention - available in Spanish)

• Yamile Socolovsky, President of the Working Women’s Committee of the Americas of the Trade Union Confederation of Workers of the Americas (Intervention - available in Spanish)

Discussion and statements by delegations

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