The UAE’s delegation included Mona Al Marri, Vice President of the UAE Gender Balance Council, Hanan Ahli, Managing Director of the UAE Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Center, and representatives from the UAE Ministry of Community Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Delivering the UAE’s national statement in the CSW68 General Debate, Minister Al Kaabi emphasised the need to protect Palestinian women and girls. She stressed the need to strengthen and develop national institutions, social protection systems, and public services to ensure that women and girls have access to quality education and put them at the forefront of efforts to finance climate action.
Minister Al Kaabi also participated in a Ministerial Roundtable on mobilising financing for gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, specifically policies and strategies to end women and girls’ poverty. She highlighted that UAE has supported the launch of the joint UN Women and International Trade Centre’s Global Campaign on Gender-Responsive Public Procurement, which aims to reduce barriers that women entrepreneurs face when competing for public tenders to promote their empowerment, as well as their full, equal, and meaningful participation.
The UAE, the UK, UN Women, DROPS, and ODI co-hosted a high-level panel discussion on reframing security from the perspective of women and girls living under the Taliban in Afghanistan. Participants heard from Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh, Assistant Minister for Political Affairs and Permanent Representative of the UAE to the UN, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, UK Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and the UN, and Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women. The panel included Ambassador Mitsuki Shino, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the UN, Ayesha Khan, Senior Research Fellow at ODI, Mariam Safi, Executive Director of DROPS, and a civil society representative from Afghanistan.
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