Commitment title:

Challenges in the inequality gap

Commitment description:

Make the public sector aware of the importance of generating affirmative action and public policies that contribute to closing the inequality gap faced by women of African descent, in priority areas such as health and education, using data gathered by censuses

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    Capacitacion y sencibilizacion al sector publico con respecto a la importancia de generar políticas publicas que contribuyan a cerrar las brechas de desigualdedes que enfrentan mujeres afrodescendientes indigenas, los jovenes y las niñas
Commitment to be actioned in: Peru
Submitted from: Peru
Submitted by
Centro de Desarrollo de la Mujer Negra Peruana
Thematic area
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts
Commitment category

(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.