UAH // Presents the Comprehensive Policy on Gender, Diversity, and Equity

On March 8, the comprehensive Gender, Diversity, and Equity Policy was presented at the university. The ceremony was hosted by Paula Barros, Vice-Rector of Research and Postgraduate Studies. Paula highlighted the relevance of presenting the new policy on Worker's Day. “This is what we commemorate today: the demand for the equal exercise of rights and integration into society, rights that have historically been denied to women, feminized bodies, and all those who do not conform to rigid sex-gender mandates or perspectives. But despite all the gaps and the pain these gaps entail, I want us to think of today as a moment of joy, as many democratic and positive processes are born precisely from the people's demands in the streets and also in the universities. 

For its part, the Rector Eduardo Silva SJ He/She/It revealed the role of the university as an agent of change both in its own community and for society as a whole.

The feminist academic, Dora Barrancos, gave a master lecture on the development of feminisms in Argentina, the emergence of sexual diversity collectives, and the main legal gains they have achieved. In her presentation, the academic from the University of Buenos Aires presented an overview of the Argentine reality «country where we dreamed of achieving these rights, fundamentally with the law that allows safe and free abortion, the law that allows the union of people of the same sex, and at the same time promotes decent work for the gender and sexual diaspora. But there is still much to be done. I have the impression that we have come a long way in recent years. Between 2003 and 2015, the State's commitment to parity dignity of genders accelerated greatly. Then, the neoliberal storm greatly limited that expansion, and we have been able to resume, now from December 2019, with the commitment of the political forces integrated into the ”Frente de Todos" (Everyone's Front), in guaranteeing what we desire, what we propose; lives worthy of being lived, in the same way as any human creature deserves, in the same way that gender and sexual dissidences must have the opportunity to dignify their lives.”.

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