BRICS women parliamentarians’ forum / Jaipur Declaration
BRICS
(Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) women parliamentarians’ forum
on 21 August 2016 passed unanimously the Jaipur Declaration. The declaration
was adopted by them on the concluding day of the BRICS Women Parliamentarians'
Forum meet held in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The declaration has emphasized the need
to inform, communicate and educate citizens about developmental schemes. This
is second such meeting (first one was held at Moscow in 2015)
Highlights
• The Declaration
mentions the need to address climate change and protection of ecological system
and forest as well as food security, expeditious parliamentary approval of SDG
related legislation and adequate budgetary resources.
• It calls upon
international financial institutions to extend support to developing and least
developed countries and help them gain easier access to new and affordable
technologies as envisaged under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
and the Paris Agreement
• It also emphasizes
on plans for incorporating gender concerns and greater involvement of women
parliamentarians in integrating citizens in the development process.
Besides,
the need to inform and educate citizens about the developmental schemes and
institutionalisation of the BRICS Women Parliamentarians' Forum were also taken
up in the declaration which was unanimously adopted.
Heads and members of delegation from Brazil,
Russia, India, China and South Africa were present in the two-day meeting which
held from 20 August to 21 August 2016.
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