Cuba has registered a significant number of social achievements in the female sector, which will be recognized in the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).">Cuba has registered a significant number of social achievements in the female sector, which will be recognized in the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).">

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  • 07 / 31 / 2010


Cuba has registered a significant number of social achievements in the female sector, which will be recognized in the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

The secretary general of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), Yolanda Ferrer, said the sector is a priority group in the country´s social policies.

When speaking at the parliamentary committee on Attention to Youth, Children and Equal Rights of Women, which is meting in the Havana Convention Center, Ferrer pointed out that 40 percent of university enrollments in technical-scientific areas are female.

Cuba also ranks first in the Americas in terms of low infant mortality at 4.8 per thousand live births.

The FMC is an NGO with special consultative status in the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and it is the follow-up mechanism to the agreements of the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995.

Source: cubasi.com


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