MICHAELLE JEAN MET WITH MINISTER YANICK MEZIL
(Haiti Libre) -
Monday, Michaëlle Jean, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, met for nearly an hour, Yanick Mézil, the Minister for the Status of Women and Women's Rights. Following this meeting Yanick Mézil told the press "...we handed to Michaelle Jean some documents on projects; information on some projects we have at the ministry level. We talked about empowerment, forums, education, and training of women..." declared Yanick Mézil.
For her part, Michaëlle Jean stated that, "...what comes out of this situation [...] is the total dependence on international aid and assistance. It is clear that it is necessary that a sustainable economy is built, and I believe that women, the Haitian women have this experience, ... that's what we have discussed.
Transversally, we can not talk about health if we do not imply a gender perspective, .... we can not talk about public health, public safety, economy, education, if we do not have the feminine perspective, .... it is something that is essential [...]
You know, it is not necessarily money that does all [...] UNESCO is undergoing a difficult crisis..., for UNESCO Haiti is a priority area for action. There is no question to back down on that,... for capacity building, improving the socio-economic status of women, allow the Ministry to achieve its objectives that it wants to achieve, to have reinforcements, to take advantage of networking with this new unit of gender,... that has been created by the Director General of UNESCO. We need to see concretely how we can support this ministry, so that it can achieve its objectives, that's very clear [...]"
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