{"id":106686,"date":"2020-10-02T10:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T09:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/\/tribuna-fernandez-de-la-vega\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T09:00:32","slug":"med-voices-delavega","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/med-voices-delavega\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribuna Fern\u00e1ndez de la Vega"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mar\u00eda Teresa Fern\u00e1ndez de la Vega<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Women make up only 7% of world leadership, but it has been publicly recognized how countries governed by women are the ones that have best responded to the crisis created by the pandemic.<\/h3>\n

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For millennia, the Mediterranean<\/strong> has been a sea that creates bonds, that communicates, a sea that unites. It\u2019s a space whose history and essence are marked by the crossing of peoples, cultures and civilizations. We have not always been at peace but the geography has meant that we have always been together.<\/p>\n

The Mediterranean is the region where literature, theater, the concept of democracy were all born.<\/strong> A luminous and privileged region, thanks to its history, its beauty, the wealth that we share, but also to its strategically important location.\u00a0 <\/span>A geographical position that has given the region prominence on the world stage since antiquity, for better and for worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

All this wealth, this great stream of people, dialogue and progress that the Mare Nostrum has brought us, culminated in the vision that the Barcelona Process made real, the Union for the Mediterranean. The vision was also driven by the threats to peace that are also part of the region\u2019s heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, 25 years later, the entire world, including both shores of the Mediterranean, is facing the greatest crisis in decades. The Covid-19 pandemic<\/strong> has disrupted our lives and economies. It has brought us face to face with our fragility and tested our resilience. It has shown the huge inequalities not only between countries but within our own societies.<\/span><\/p>\n

It has also highlighted how the increasingly intolerant and divisive political discourse of recent years have allowed mistrust and suspicion of others to proliferate. Only by working together can we successfully confront what is the most recent of the global crises we face.<\/strong> We have already seen that those who refuse to understand the need for change and greater equality also failed to grasp the gravity of the pandemic and therefore did not respond appropriately. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Never before has the value of multilateralism, which is at the heart of the Union for the Mediterranean, made so much sense. Never before has there been such a need for a vision based on equality in diversity, on respect for democratic values and human rights, on the conviction that there is another way of tackling problems, through dialogue and the exchange of ideas. It is out of this vision, the Union was created.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this part of the world, North and South cover three continents and many more languages, ethnic groups, beliefs and cultures. It wasn\u2019t easy but cooperation was established. Today it is time to reinforce that cooperation, defend it and build a region where democracy and people can flourish in peace, against all forms of bigotry.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is time to take advantage of the opportunity that the pandemic has unexpectedly given us to showcase how leadership that puts people first benefits the countries of the Union and beyond. It is a change for the Union to lead the way for knowledge, for modernization, for innovation, for greater justice and equality, so that no one is left behind or at the mercy of a virus.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the best guarantee of success, we need women integrated in the decision-making and management process.<\/strong> Women may represent only 7% of the world\u2019s current leadership but it\u2019s common knowledge that those countries governed by women responded best to the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Women work to protect and promote health, peace, life and, of course, equality. In short, they are most qualified to lead the crucial and urgent social transformation that a sick world demands, beyond the Covid-19 crisis. With women leading and democratic values at its core, the Mediterranean can become the region that blazes a new path for fairer and more inclusive globalization in which there is room for everyone with no space for hatred and exclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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