New York (Union)
The UAE stressed the necessity of effectively eliminating poverty among women and girls, as they constitute half of society, and the importance of following an approach that includes the entire society, to mobilize the necessary funding to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls, expressing its commitment to cooperate with all concerned parties to achieve these goals.
Yesterday, the UAE said in a statement delivered by Her Excellency Noura Al Kaabi, Minister of State, at the Ministerial Round Table of the sixty-eighth session at the United Nations in New York, regarding policies and strategies to eliminate poverty among women and girls: “This meeting represents an important opportunity to consider the achievements we have achieved.” “And to re-evaluate our approach to mobilizing the necessary funding to achieve gender equality.”
Her Excellency Noura Al Kaabi added: “We must, as a priority, intensify our support for businesses led or owned by women, and enhance the presence and participation of these businesses in the labor market, in addition to encouraging various businesses to respond to women’s needs and perspectives.”
She continued: This includes implementing policies that call on governments to take an active role in enhancing the participation of businesses led or owned by women in the field of public procurement (Public Procurement), given that governments are the body that sets policies, carries out procurement operations, and is also one of the contracting parties. In the public procurement system.
Her Excellency said: “The UAE supported the joint global campaign launched by UN Women and the International Trade Centre, to encourage consideration of the needs and perspective of women in the field of public procurement, by urging governments and policy makers to develop strategies and take measures to reduce the obstacles facing women entrepreneurs.” While competing in the tender market, in addition to focusing on providing suitable work environments for women.”
In conjunction with these efforts, Her Excellency Noura Al Kaabi stressed the necessity of adopting and implementing policies that guarantee equal access to financing for women and men, prevent the widening of the wage gap between the sexes, and protect women and girls from poverty, noting that the UAE, for example, has adopted laws that guarantee that no Discrimination in banking transactions and access to credit, and requiring women to be represented on the boards of directors of companies listed on the capital markets.
At the conclusion of the statement, Her Excellency said: “Since women and girls make up half of society, effectively eliminating poverty among them requires the participation of all concerned and active parties, including the public and private sectors.”
She added: “The UAE has always called for an approach that includes the entire society, to mobilize the necessary funding to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls, and we will remain committed to cooperating with all concerned parties to achieve these goals.”
In addition, the UAE affirmed that prosperity will come as a result of educating women and girls, and that peace and security will come from their contribution to their societies, stressing that it is wrong to attribute the deprivation of women of their rights to the Islamic religion, as this has nothing to do with the religion.
The UAE, the United Kingdom, UN Women, the Organization for Policy Research and Development Studies, and ODI Global Consulting co-hosted a high-level panel discussion on “Reframing security from the perspective of women and girls living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.” », on the sidelines of the work of the Commission on the Status of Women at its 68th session.
The event discussed the priority topic of the Commission on the Status of Women this year, which is the realistic impact of poverty and its repercussions on women and girls. There is no doubt that poverty forces families to make irrational choices, in order to provide food for their members, which pushes women and girls towards more severe situations. Weakness.
In her intervention, Her Excellency Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Political Affairs and Permanent Representative of the UAE to the United Nations, stressed that prosperity will come as a result of educating women and girls, and that peace and security will come from their contributions to their communities.
Her Excellency stressed that it is wrong to attribute the deprivation of women of their rights to the Islamic religion, as this is not part of the religion at all.
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