1. Promote gender rotation in the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly.

Only four women have served as Presidents of the UN General Assembly in nearly 80 years, and there has never been a female Secretary-General of the UN. It is high time to ensure that women have equal access to decision-making positions, including at the multilateral level.

Spain is working on this issue together with other countries such as Mexico and Slovenia, with whom we seek to gather support among Member States and informal groups interested in advancing the gender equality agend

2. Continue supporting and strengthening the work of UN Women by increasing its funding.

Given Spain's prominent role at the time of UN Women’s creation and considering that UN Women’s objectives, principles, and values align with the priorities of the Spanish Government, last year Spain increased its voluntary contributions to UN Women for both marked programs and projects as well as the organization’s regular resources.

We can assure that Spain’s contribution will continue to increase, aiming to rank among the top ten donors.

Additionally, as host of the IV International Conference on Financing for Development, Spain is committed to promoting the reduction of gender gaps as one of the priorities of this Conference.

3. Promote gender parity and equality in Spain, the EU, and globally.

The Organic Law of Parity Representation and Balanced Presence of Women and Men, or the Parity Law, was approved in June by the Spanish Parliament to ensure that women hold half of the political power and half of the economic power. Women make up half of the global population, so they have the right to represent not only half of governments and parliaments but also half of the boards of the most important companies.

Spain will continue to promote gender parity at the EU level and the equal representation of women in leadership positions within UN bodies and agencies, and in international agencies and organizations from a human rights perspective.

4. Promote global care systems.

It is estimated that women dedicate between 22 and 42 hours per week to the care of children or elderly adults, which represents, on average, a burden up to three times greater than that of men. This constitutes a barrier to the full participation of women in the labor market and public life.

Spain's goal is to design a comprehensive caregiving system based on human rights, transformative of gender, and addressing multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination, so as to promote shared responsibility among women and men, the state, the market, families, and the community, which are part of social protection systems and which elevate the right to care to the scope and protection of other human rights in our country.

At the international level, Spain has promoted two resolutions in the United Nations that mark a milestone regarding the importance and economic value of care work for the sustainability of our lives. As a result of our diplomatic efforts, the General Assembly unanimously adopted the Resolution for International Care and Support Day, and the Human Rights Council adopted the Resolution for the recognition of care from a rights-based perspective.

5. Ensure a feminist approach in all policies, including those that are part of the triple transition: social, digital, and ecological.