International Women’s Day 2020 – REMARKS by Rosalind Crowther, CD, South Sudan
International Women’s Day 2020 – REMARKS Rosalind Crowther, CD, South Sudan 11/03/2020 Undersecretary of the Ministry of Gender, Honourable Angelina Teny, representatives of Government, Donors, Women-Peace&Security WG, UNWOMEN, GBVSub-Cluster, WLOs, and Civil society, Welcome and Thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of CARE International. A Special Thank you to the Government of Canada for supporting this event. •Today we come together to mark International Women’s Day and seize the moment to advance gender equality in South Sudan. The international theme for this year is “I am generation equality: realizing women’s rights”. o Gender equality means creating a conducive environment for women & girls so that they can enjoy equal rights and opportunities, and o CARE is committed to putting women & girls Front and Centre of all our programming in SS. o Our mandate, ‘fighting Poverty, defending dignity’, compels us to promote gender equalit...