Brain-booster
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24 Oct 2023
Brain Booster for UPSC & State PCS Examination (Topic: G20 New Delhi Declaration : Gender Equality and Empowering All Women and Girls)
1. Enhancing Economic and Social Empowerment
- G20 reiterated its Commitment to eliminate gender-based violence
including sexual violence, harassment, discrimination and abuse against
women and girls both online and offline, and ensure safe workplaces.
- Promote women’s inclusion into the formal financial system by
strengthening their access to economic resources, particularly through
digital finance and microfinance.
- Eliminate gender stereotypes and biases, and change norms, attitudes and
behaviours that perpetuate gender inequality.
2. Bridging the Gender Digital Divide
- Address gender norms and barriers to accessibility, affordability,
adoption, and usage of digital technologies.
- Encourage and support initiatives by identifying, funding, and
accelerating proven solutions, thereby improving women’s livelihoods and
income security.
- Welcome initiatives to support women empowerment in the digital economy.
3. Driving Gender Inclusive Climate Action
- Support and increase women’s participation, partnership, decision-making
and leadership in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and disaster
risk reduction strategies and policy frameworks on environmental issues.
- Support gender-responsive and environmentresilient solutions, including
water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) solutions, to build resilience to the
impact of climate change and environmental degradation.
4. Securing Women’s Food Security, Nutrition, and Well-Being
- Encourage investments in inclusive, sustainable and resilient
agriculture and food systems.
- Support accessible, affordable, safe and nutritious food and healthy
diets in school meal programmes.
- Promote innovation for inclusive agri-value chains and systems by and
for women farmers.
- Support gender-responsive and age-sensitive nutrition and food system
interventions by leveraging innovative financing instruments and social
protection systems in ending hunger and malnutrition.
Financial Sector Issues
- The group welcomed the successful conclusion of the G20 TechSprint 2023,
a joint initiative with the BIS Innovation Hub, which will promote
innovative solutions aimed at improving crossborder payments.
- G20 reiterated its commitment to promote sustainable capital flows. To
this effect, it took note of the OECD’s Report, “Towards Orderly Green
Transition – Investment Requirements and Managing Risks to Capital Flows”.
Countering Terrorism and Money Laundering
- The G20 expressed concern about illicit trafficking and diversion of
small arms and light weapons.
- International cooperation among States is critical to combat these
phenomena, including export, import controls, and tracing.
- G20 condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including
those on the basis of xenophobia, racism and other forms of intolerance, or
in the name of religion or belief, recognizing the commitment of all
religions to peace.