International women’s day – Bayr: women’s rights worldwide.

Structural failures of the Common agricultural policy let women go hungry

Vienna (OTS/SK) – „hunger Worldwide about one billion people. 70 percent of them are female,“ Petra Bayr, SPÖ-area spokeswoman for global development, on the occasion of the International women’s day on 8. March, and calls to strengthen women’s rights around the world. „In most cases, women starve, because they are not structurally discriminated against, and although they are the most of the global food produce. Their rights are disregarded, their needs to those of men. The international community must stand against this and any other discrimination!“ Women are about when it comes to access to Land and resources, but also in the consumption of food by yourself to the male members of the family worse. ****

„The Austrian development cooperation, many projects in countries of the Global South to make an important contribution to improve the social position of women. But it needs more,“ demands the Deputy. In the context of the negotiations of the Common agricultural policy (CAP) needed to be strengthened „consistency in the sense of sustainable development“, calls for the following questions. It could not be according to the deputies, that the EU supports its agricultural economy so that the national economies of Emerging and developing countries are systematically destroyed, and exploited are weakened. „The women here are always the first victims,“ Bayr. (Final) sc

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