Cuba was chosen in Brasil one of the vice-presidents countries of the 11 Regional Congress on the woman from Latin America and the Caribbean, where a forum took place to discuss the women’s problems as well as equal genders.

At the meeting, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Brasil Celso Amorin stressed that the governments are accountable to promoting new policies on the public sector in favor of the women’s improvement and their participation on politics, economy, and social issues.

Amorin stated that passed 15 years of the fourth World Congress on Woman, hold in China in 1995, a fair acknowledgement is needed, which he recalled was established by the international community as an strategic aim of development.

In Cuba, a country considered paradigm on the issue in Latin America and the Caribbean, after the revolutionary triumph in January, 1959 woman’s situation was progressively changing and they were allowed to play roles traditionally assigned to the men on political, social, educational and labor sectors.

Cuba was the first country that signed the Convention about the elimination of all discrimination ways against woman, and the second one that ratified it.

More than 800 delegates of 33 countries from the CEPAL and over 100 non governmental organizations around the world participated at the Congress, which end with the approval of that so called Brasilia’s Agreement.

Brazil was the president country, while delegations from Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela accompanied Cuba’s vice-presidency.

The General Secretary of the Cuban Women Federation led the Cuban delegation, which was comprised by officials of Ministry of Foreign Trade, and others of the Cuban embassy in Brazil.

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