00:00In Panama, several feminist organizations gathered at the National Assembly to oppose the bill that would eliminate the Ministry of Women.
00:06The organizations reported that their arrival at Parliament was hindered, delaying their entry and restricting the participation of several organizations in the session.
00:15The organizations declared that with the downgrading of the ministry to the Institute for Women,
00:20the victim care centers that were beginning to be established in the different provinces of the country will be lost.
00:25Likewise, the bill affects frontline workers who were promoting equity policies, training and care for victims of gender-based violence, among other initiatives.
00:44We demand to be allowed to enter that meeting, that debate, because it feels like they are obstructing us.
00:55And we, as women, including indigenous women, the women here present, have every right to be allowed to enter, and also to present our position.
01:09And it is unacceptable that they are obstructing this from happening.
01:14We working women are here because we are also the ones who experience all the stories of violence against women and girls in their homes and workplaces on a daily basis.
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