Women and Human Rights
Women's rights
The equal enjoyment of human rights by women and men is a universally accepted principle reaffirmed by the Vienna Declaration, which was adopted by 171 countries at the World Conference on Human Rights in June 1993.
The areas covered by the Declaration are:
- Equal access to basic social services, including education and health services
- Equal opportunities for participation in political and economic decision-making
- Equal pay for equal work
- Equal protection under the law
- Elimination of gender discrimination and elimination of violence against women
- Equal rights of citizens in all spheres of life, public (such as the workplace) and private (such as the home).
FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE AND WOMEN'S SUPPORT
Although it is undeniable that in the last 25 years, women have made significant progress in the development and have moved towards equality with men in areas such as education and health, their opportunities for participation in some areas, such as economics or politics, remain limited..
In some countries, legislation also does not allow them to enjoy the same protection and rights as men.
At Fundación por la Justicia we consider that women play a key role in the development of their societies. For this reason, an important part of the projects that have been carried out over the years have been centred around three essential components:
- Equal opportunities for all people in society
- Sustainability of these opportunities, from one generation to the next
- Empowering people, so that they participate in and benefit from the development process
PROJECTS
Maite Echarte and José Palazón, from the Association for Children's Rights (PRODEIN) XV Human Rights Award from the Foundation for Justice
The president of the Foundation for Justice, José María Tomás i Tío, and the president of the Bancaja Foundation, Rafael Alcón, presented this morning to the media the winners of the XV Foundation for Justice-Bancaja Foundation Award: Maite ...
FxJ-Bancaja Foundation Award
Fundación por la Justicia and Fundación Bancaja have just launched the fifteenth edition of this award, which aims to recognize a career of service to justice conceived in its entirety and/or those initiatives or projects that collaborate in improving...
Zero Corruption
Leader Ana María Fuertes Description This project, carried out jointly with the Baltasar Garzón International Foundation and with funding from the Department of Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation of the Generalitat Valenciana. The...
Restorative Justice in El Salvador
International Tribunal for Restorative Justice in El Salvador Leader José Mª Tomás y Tío Description The lack of institutional response to the victims of the armed conflict that was falsely closed with an Amnesty Law, recently declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional...
Mozambique: "Optimal conditions to guarantee the right to education".
Optimal conditions to guarantee the right to education in Mozambique Description According to UNDP, Mozambique has a poverty rate of 54.7% and 70% of the population lives in rural areas. Mozambique is one of the most impoverished countries in the world...
Job insertion of prisoners
Leader Javier Vilalta Objectives The objective of this project is to promote training aimed at job placement. At Fundación por la Justicia we consider that professional training has to be linked to the personnel demands of the sector...
Global Campaign for Education
Leader Javier Vilalta Description Since 2001, the Global Campaign for Education has celebrated the Global Action Week for Education (SAME). It is a week, where the 124 countries that work to guarantee the right to education, mobilize to call the...
Update at the regional level of the Pact against Corruption
Three years after the signing of the “State Pact against Corruption and for Civic Regeneration”, interest was focused on checking how far the signatories had come in fulfilling their commitments. For this purpose...
Observatory of the State Pact against Corruption
The fundamental mission of the “Observatory of the State Pact against Corruption” is to ensure compliance with the proposals contained in the document “State Pact against Corruption and for Civic Regeneration”, acting as auditor of the progress...