Chile associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Cana...

Chile associates itself with the statement made by the representative of Canada on behalf of the Group of Friends of Women, Peace and Security and the statement that will be made by the representative of Costa Rica on behalf of the Human Security Network. The year 2010 is a year for taking stock of progress in the human rights of women and in gender equality. We are commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, and its Platform for Action, as well as the tenth anniversary of the Millennium Declaration (General Assembly resolution 55/2) and of resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security. In our hemisphere, the Organization of American States is marking the Inter-American Year of Women, under that banner “Women and power: towards a world of equality”.