At the closing session of the 11th Congress of the Cuban Women’s Federation (FMC), the president noted that there is still a way to go in eliminating situations that end up belittling women, collapsing their rights, their dignity and their just place in a society that aspires to the highest degree possible of social justice.

He recalled that between the 10th Congress, held five years ago, and the current one, the National Program for the Advancement of Women (PAM) has been designed and approved, which in his opinion is the best expression of the State’s political will to encourage progress towards gender equality in the country.

Díaz-Canel indicated that although the PAM postulates are not essentially new, they do expand the impact of the Revolution in this area and enhance it in a comprehensive way, so that the process of transformations in which the country is immersed right now does not cause setbacks in the gains and wherever something like this can occur, it can be correct it immediately.

In order to guarantee the implementation of the program, the president noted that an extensive intense work plan that involves all agencies of the Central Administration of the State, as well as various institutions up to the level of provinces and municipalities, is being enforced.

“The objective is to guarantee that the gender approach predominates in the design of public policies and there is sensitive monitoring of all issues that involve the development of women in society,” he said.

Díaz-Canel added that there were several legislative advances that support these political projections such as the Family Code, the Penal Code, the Criminal Execution Law, the Criminal Procedure Law, the Process Code, the Comprehensive Prevention Strategy and Attention to General Violence.

In these legal instruments we have very valuable tools to always enforce the rights achieved and conquer other pending ones, the president said.

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