Carmen Moreno

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Carmen Moreno Toscano del Cueto (born April 4, 1938 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican diplomat and has headed the Organization of American States (OAS) Women's Commission since 2009 .

origin

Carmen Moreno is the daughter of the Mexican lawyer and politician Manuel Moreno Sánchez and the documentary filmmaker, poet and artist Carmen Toscano Escobedo. Her maternal grandfather was the Mexican film pioneer Salvador Toscano Barragán.

Career

After studying international relations at COLMEX in Mexico City, Carmen Moreno joined the diplomatic service in her country in 1957 and became a member of the Permanent Delegation of Mexico to the international organizations based in Geneva (until 1959).

From 1960 she worked in the Foreign Ministry in a wide variety of managerial positions. As a member of the Mexican delegation, she took part in the first UN World Conference on Women in Mexico in 1975 and was involved in establishing the UN Decade of Women under the umbrella of ECOSOC . As coordinator of the G77, she successfully negotiated a UN General Assembly resolution on debt and development and chaired the working group that drafted the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacture and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Related Materials (CIFTA). From 1997 to 2000 she was responsible for foreign policy in the area of Africa and the Middle East at the UN Secretariat .

In 1982 Moreno was awarded the rank of Ambassador to Mexico. In this capacity she represented her country in Costa Rica from 1989 to 1995 . In 1989 she became the permanent representative of Mexico at the OAS (until 1995). From 2001 until her resignation from the diplomatic service in 2003, she was Ambassador to Guatemala .

In 2003 Moreno was appointed director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan . In 2005, together with the Director General of UNESCO Koïchiro Matsuura , she signed a declaration of cooperation to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. It strongly supported the demands of the World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and the Millennium Development Goals on women's rights.

In July 2009 she was appointed head of the "Inter-American Commission of Women" (CIM) of the Organization of American States (OAS) by José Miguel Insulza and still holds this position (2019).

Honors (selection)

Web links

Source references

  1. ↑ a b https://es-la.facebook.com/MxASEM/posts/364338660372025/ Facebook page of the Asociadión del Servicio Exterior Mexicano, AC (ASEM), accessed on July 14, 2019
  2. ^ Roderic Ai Camp: Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009: Fourth Edition . University of Texas Press, October 1, 2011, ISBN 978-0-292-72634-5 , p. 660.
  3. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmenmorenotoscano accessed on July 15, 2019
  4. ↑ http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/ssig2016/speaker/carmen-moreno-toscano/ accessed on July 15, 2019
  5. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmenmorenotoscano accessed on July 15, 2019
  6. ↑ http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/ssig2016/speaker/carmen-moreno-toscano/ accessed on July 15, 2019
  7. ↑ https://www.un.org/press/en/2005/sag402.doc.htm accessed on July 15, 2019
  8. ↑ http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/ssig2016/speaker/carmen-moreno-toscano/ accessed on July 15, 2019
  9. ↑ https://www.oas.org/en/cim/directory.asp accessed on July 14, 2019
  10. ↑ http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/ssig2016/speaker/carmen-moreno-toscano/ accessed on July 15, 2019
  11. ↑ http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/ssig2016/speaker/carmen-moreno-toscano/ accessed on July 15, 2019
  12. ↑ https://www.cimacnoticias.com.mx/node/69047 accessed on July 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Moreno, Carmen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moreno Toscano del Cueto, Carmen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city