UAE participates in ministerial meeting of G20 Empowerment of Women Working Group

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), represented by its Gender Balance Council, participated successful the ministerial gathering of the ‘G20 Empowerment of Women Working Group (EWWG)’ held contiguous successful Brasília, the superior of Brazil. 

The meeting, which focused connected the themes of women’s equality and autonomy, combating misogyny and violence, and clime justice, brought unneurotic G20 nations and invited countries to stock experiences and research associated efforts to tackle sex inequality and fortify women's empowerment successful its antithetic dimensions. 

The UAE’s information successful the moving radical is portion of its engagements arsenic a impermanent state astatine the G20 meetings for the 3rd consecutive year. The state received an invitation to enactment successful this year’s meetings from the existent G20 presidency, the Federal Republic of Brazil.

Her Excellency Hanan Ahli, Board Member of the UAE Gender Balance Council and Director General of the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre, and Her Excellency Mouza Al Suwaidi, Secretary-General of the UAE Gender Balance Council attended the meeting. During the meeting, the UAE highlighted its achievements successful advancing women's enactment and economical empowerment, portion besides highlighting their relation successful promoting sustainability and clime action. 

Speaking connected the juncture of the G20 ministerial meeting, Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the UAE Gender Balance Council and woman of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Presidential Court, affirmed that the UAE has made important strides successful women's economical empowerment done policies promoting sex equality. The state has besides integrated the combat against extremism, hatred speech, discrimination, and gender-based unit into its nationalist laws. She called for these principles to beryllium incorporated into planetary frameworks to foster much inclusive economies and societies.

Sheikha Manal highlighted the important relation Emirati women play successful driving nationalist sustainability strategies, starring clime enactment and enhancing biology responsibility. She stressed the request to recognise women globally arsenic cardinal players successful clime solutions, peculiarly successful decision-making processes related to clime change.

An exemplary planetary model
Sheikha Manal thanked the G20 Presidency, Brazil, for the invitation to the UAE and praised its enactment successful keeping women's empowerment astatine the forefront of the G20 agenda. She commended the collaborative efforts of G20 subordinate states and expressed pridefulness successful the UAE's contributions to captious planetary discussions connected women's empowerment.

Her Highness noted that the ministerial gathering and the preceding two-day moving radical meetings people a important measurement guardant successful strengthening planetary practice for raising women’s empowerment and leadership. “The G20 countries person a existent accidental to pb by illustration successful creating transformative solutions to code the inequalities faced by women and girls,” she stressed.

She reiterated the UAE’s committedness to sharing its palmy experiences globally, successful enactment with the collaborative ethos of the nation’s leadership. Stressing that sex equilibrium is simply a halfway pillar of the UAE’s nationalist imaginativeness for sustainable development, she said: “We look guardant to contributing to gathering a satellite wherever economical equality, autonomy, justice, and the lack of favoritism and unit are a lived world for women everywhere.”

Her Excellency Mona Al Marri, Vice President of the UAE Gender Balance Council, said: "As portion of our committedness to advancing sex equality, the UAE is anxious to collaborate with countries and institutions crossed the satellite to thrust meaningful planetary progress. The G20 Empowerment of Women Working Group meetings provided an invaluable level to speech ideas and instrumentality strategies that person a lasting impact. By fostering partnerships with stakeholders worldwide, we purpose to code captious issues specified arsenic women’s economical participation, relation successful leadership, and the urgent request to combat unit and favoritism against women.” 

“The UAE Gender Balance Council continues to absorption connected empowering women by providing adjacent opportunities, fostering a unafraid and supportive environment, and expanding their practice successful enactment done reforms and inclusive policies. We are dedicated to ensuring that women person opportunities to thrive successful each spheres of life. Through targeted initiatives, we stay committed to dismantling barriers and promoting an inclusive attack to sustainable development, enabling women to grow their contributions astatine each level,” Her Excellency added. 

The G20 Working Group’s discussions focused connected however participating nations tin collaborate to beforehand women’s equality and autonomy by addressing the gender-based part of labour that restricts women’s economical opportunities and redistributing the load of unpaid attraction work, which disproportionately affects women worldwide. The radical besides explored strategies to combat misogyny and violence, with peculiar attraction to the antithetic experiences of unit faced by women from assorted radical and taste backgrounds. Further, the discussions emphasised connected the request for greater pistillate practice successful clime leadership, acknowledging that portion women pb grassroots clime action, they stay underrepresented successful planetary decision-making processes.

Enhancing enactment roles
Speaking astatine the G20 Empowerment of Women Working Group (EWWG) meeting, Her Excellency Hanan Ahli emphasised the UAE’s committedness to enhancing women’s economical empowerment, combating favoritism and gender-based violence, and expanding the relation of women leaders successful clime enactment initiatives. She highlighted the occurrence of the Women’s Pavilion astatine Expo 2020 Dubai, which represents a important bequest of the event, starring into Expo 2025 successful Osaka. Her Excellency noted that the pavilion was a cardinal milestone successful planetary efforts to empower women. Furthermore, the palmy COP28 league hosted by the UAE has strengthened these initiatives done the motorboat of the ‘Women successful Climate Action’ initiative, aimed astatine enhancing women’s enactment skills successful addressing clime issues and processing innovative, applicable solutions to planetary challenges.

She further said: “In the UAE, we recognise that existent equality begins with education. Thanks to our forward-thinking policies, women present correspond 70% of assemblage graduates and 57% of graduates successful STEM fields—investing successful a aboriginal workforce that fosters innovation and economical growth. Today, women comprise 46% of our workforce and clasp 34% of enactment roles, including one-third of our cabinet. This practice enriches our decision-making processes and ensures divers perspectives are integrated into governance and policy-making,” she said.

Ahli besides highlighted the UAE’s committedness to eliminating barriers to women’s equality done the efforts of the UAE Gender Balance Council, led by Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed. “Our progressive legislation, including the Equal Pay Law and policies mandating women’s practice connected firm boards, reflects our dedication to creating an inclusive situation wherever women tin thrive. With initiatives similar the Gender Balance Index, we guarantee transparency and accountability, portion the 'Pledge to Accelerate SDG 5' aims to unafraid astatine slightest 30% of enactment roles for women by 2025. This committedness is not conscionable astir numbers — it’s astir driving inclusive enactment and sustainable improvement for all,” she emphasised.

Women’s relation successful clime initiatives
Ahli further noted that women play a pivotal relation successful starring the UAE’s clime initiatives and championing biology stewardship. “Following our occurrence successful hosting COP28, we proceed to unite nations to empower women against the challenges posed by clime change,” she added. She besides stressed the value of combating misogyny and unit arsenic indispensable to advancing sex equality. 

Her Excellency Mouza Al Suwaidi, who attended the moving radical meeting, emphasised the important relation of planetary collaboration successful advancing sex equality and fostering sustainable improvement globally. "Our information successful the G20 moving radical meetings reflects the UAE’s committedness to supporting planetary efforts to empower women, heighten their independence, and grow their enactment roles crossed assorted sectors. Economic sex equality is captious to promoting maturation and gathering sustainable and prosperous societies. The meetings successful Brazil people an important measurement successful strengthening the G20’s committedness to meaningful advancement successful sex equality. Achieving sex equilibrium globally, and addressing cardinal challenges specified arsenic clime change, violence, and favoritism against women, requires a united, corporate approach. With shared commitment, we tin guarantee that women everyplace tin afloat lend to progress," she affirmed.

The UAE, represented by its Gender Balance Council, has been an progressive subordinate successful the G20 Empowerment of Women Working Group’s meetings this twelvemonth since August. Leading up to the ministerial gathering connected 11 October, the UAE besides participated successful 2 moving radical meetings successful Brasília connected 8 and 9 October. Additionally, the UAE delegation participated successful a broadside lawsuit titled “Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Empowerment successful the G20,” wherever discussions focused connected integrating sex perspectives into each G20 policies and initiatives.

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