According to UN Women: “I am Equality Generation: For Women’s Rights” is the theme chosen to highlight International Women’s Day (8 March) 2020.
This theme is in line with UN Women‘s new multi-generational campaign , Equality Generation, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which was adopted in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, and is recognized as the most progressive roadmap for the empowerment of women and girls worldwide.
The Iberarchives Programme has been committed to the gender perspective since its inception and we would like to highlight that one of the programme’s priority lines of action is the promotion of the gender perspective. In fact, in the annual call for grants for archival projects, it is positively valued when one of the programme’s projects incorporates measures to reduce inequality between men and women, strengthening women’s capacities and making women’s contribution to society more visible.
Iberarchivos joins UN Women’s Generation Equality campaign to accelerate actions towards gender equality.
We invite you to learn about some of the projects with a gender perspective that have received funding from the Ibero-American Cooperation Programme:
- 2008/076 Recovery of the historical evidence of the human rights of black people and women in Colombia.
- 2007/133 Archivo de la Violencia Feminicida: por los derechos humanos de las niñas y las mujeres en México (1st phase)
- 2008/108 Documentary organisation of the Inamu collection 1995-2003
- 2009/087 Creation of the digital collection “Imagen y memoria de la mujer en el Caribe Colombiano, 1875-1975” (1st phase)
- 2010/068 Creation of the digital collection “Image and memory of women in the Colombian Caribbean, 1875-1975” (2nd phase)
- 2012/030 Creation of the digital collection ‘Image and memory of women in the Colombian Caribbean, 1875-1975’ (3rd phase)
- 2013/099 Catalogue of documentary sources on Dominican women. XVII-XVIII centuries
- 2008/225 Plenario de Mujeres del Uruguay: imagen e idea (Plenary of Women of Uruguay: image and idea)
- 2013/105 Identification, recovery, digitisation and dissemination of documents referring to Margarita Xirgu in Uruguay
- 2009/205 Reconstruction and conservation of the documents collected in the “César Campodónico” Archive. Construction of a service space on the artistic-institutional history of the Institución Teatral El Galpón and the independent theatre in Uruguay in the last 50 years (2nd phase).
Gender Equality is not only a fundamental right, it is the necessary basis for a prosperous and sustainable world!