MONTREAL, Canada — Female foreign ministers meeting for the first summit of its kind vowed Saturday to bring “women’s perspective” to foreign policy. The two-day meeting bringing together more than half of the world’s top women diplomats in Montreal, which began Friday, focused on topics such as conflict prevention, democratic growth and eliminating gender-based violence. This is about highlighting the importance and the role and the rights of women and girls in the world. At the end of the summit, a dozen of the participants symbolically placed flowers on headstones erected in a Montreal park to commemorate 14 women killed in 1989 at the Ecole Polytechnique engineering school. The killer, who targeted women in what was classified as a hate crime, wounded 14 others.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 23, 2018 03:11 UTC