Documento de Posición Ofical

COMITÉ: Comisión de la Condición Jurídica y Social de la Mujer

(CSW)
DELEGADA: Ana Paula Venero González
PAÍS: República de Fiji
TEMA: Condición de las Mujeres en Zonas de Conflicto

“Together with all, development for all” (Narendra Modi)

More than 700 million people, or 10% of the world´s population, still live in extreme poverty, surviving
with US$1.90 per day and struggling to fulfil the most basic needs every human being should have.
Worldwide, the poverty rate in rural areas is more than three times higher than in urban areas, but living
in cities does not guarantee a better life at all, because the unplanned rapid expansion of towns and cities
means an increasing number of poor and vulnerable people who are living in inhuman conditions, without
adequate living space or access to the basic services. More than half the global population already lives in
urban areas and approximately a quarter of these urban dwellers live in slums or informal settlements.
Having a job does not guarantee a decent living. In fact, 8% of employed workers and their families
worldwide lived in extreme poverty in 2018. Poverty affects children disproportionately, one out of five
children live in extreme poverty and ensuring social protection for all children and other vulnerable
groups is critical to reduce poverty. Poverty in France affects nine million of the country’s 67 million
people with a third of these being children.
The French Republic is currently the world’s 7 th largest economy. The French President Emmanuel
Macron has started to do more to help the nation’s poor. He has announced a $9.3 billion antipoverty plan
increasing the fight against poverty in France. It is expected that it will get people into work and help the
young, specifically, this plan includes increasing schooling until the age of 18, create 300 nurseries to get
mothers into work by 2020, emergency accommodation with a priority for women and children, and
breakfast for students in the poorest areas. France has achieved a high standard of living and quality of
life driven by inclusive social security systems and access for all to healthcare and basic goods and
services. The country has also developed public and private infrastructures, controlling the population that
lives in slums. Yet there is still work to be done, especially to reduce social, educational and gender
inequalities, maintain healthy ecosystems and sustainably manage natural resources. Moreover, in 2009,
according with the Grenelle II law, as part of the Sustainable City Plan, France launched the ÉcoQuartier
initiative, promoting a new way to design, build and manage French neighborhoods and cities sustainably.
In 2016, the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) presented the Sustainable Urbanization
Strategy, which summarizes the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development.
The French Republic proposes a solution based principally on the French Anti-Poverty Plan, which will
be focused on getting people into work, helping the young people and creating new jobs, as the French
President Emmanuel Macron said “I believe in creating activities to create jobs, because if there are no
jobs there is no chance of solving the problem of poverty. . . If there is no production there is no chance of
redistribution, or it is done at the expense of the few who produce.” This plan will be focused principally
on lifting people out of poverty, because is not enough to prevent people falling into poverty, we need to
concern about improving the quality of life of the inhabitants, assuring them the opportunity to have a
decent job, the basic services (sanitation, health, food, drinking water) a house and a sustainable
neighborhood. We can achieve this by basing the plan on the ÉcoQuartiers (sustainable neighborhoods),
which are already being implemented in some European countries. Also, it is important to base all our
plans in the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development, taking into account that it is
crucial to harmonize three core elements: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental
protection. These elements are interconnected and all are crucial for the well-being of individuals and
societies.
“Do more for those who have less” (Emmanuel Macron)