Colombia – Gender and women’s rights

IV. POLICY DEFINITION

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Human Rights Approach

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  • Gender-sensitive approach: A human rights-based approach (HRBA) applied to gender issues reveals how human rights affect women and men differently and how power relations and gender discriminations affect the effective enjoyment of rights by human beings. It will also take into account the document “Gender Perspective of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights” and, in that sense, the importance of understanding that the impacts of business activities vary between men and women.

 

VIII. FUNDAMENTAL PILLARS

i. Fundamental Pillar 1: The State’s obligation to protect human rights

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Strand 2 [Eje nº 2]: Encourage the creation of regulations and strategies that promote respect for human rights in the development of business activities.

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  • The Ministry of Mines and Energy [Minminas] will formulate and implement gender guidelines for the mining and energy sector.

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Strand 4 [Eje nº 4]: Promoting inclusion and non-discrimination in business activity

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  • The Presidential Advisory Office for Human Rights, together with the Presidential Advisory Office for Competitiveness and Public-Private Management, the Presidential Advisory Office for Women and the ICBF [Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar] will carry out the articulation mechanisms for the implementation of gender parity initiatives that involve women and girls.

Strand 7 [Eje nº 7]: Provide guidance and assistance to businesses and enterprises targeting vulnerable populations

  • The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism will incorporate the gender approach in the national government’s rural and urban entrepreneurship strategies focused on the most vulnerable population (framework of the integral routes of productive inclusion).

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Strand 9 [Eje nº 9]: The state as economic actor

  • Bancóldex will develop and implement a gender policy, according to the scope defined by the bank in 2019.

 

ii. Fundamental Pillar 2: The duty of business to respect human rights

Strand 1[Eje nº 1]: Provide companies with the tools to fulfil their responsibility to respect human rights

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  • The Presidential Advisory Office for Women’s Equity (CPEM) will provide technical advice to private companies on the implementation of gender equity initiatives.

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Strand 3 [Eje nº 3]: Train public and private companies on the need to mitigate the consequences of possible human rights impacts due to their operations, products or services provided, with an emphasis on those located in the region

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  • The Presidential Advisory Office for Women’s Equity (CPEM) will implement an advocacy strategy for companies to promote actions to close gender gaps and empower women and girls from the logic of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Shared Value.