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Lebanon stresses from NY the need to achieve gender equality
27-3-2018
The Commission on the Status of Women concluded its 62nd session at the UN headquarters in New York with the participation of representatives from all regions of the world with the priority theme, ‘Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls’. The new Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York, Amal Mudalali, headed an official Lebanese delegation at the meeting. Cynthia Shidiac, the consul at the permanent mission of Lebanon, underlined the importance of achieving gender equality with focus on the active role of NGOs, civil society and women’s rights advocates in this regard. Shidiac stressed the need to weigh up all possibilities and use up all means to reach gender equality as an unswerving devotion to the advancement of societies. On the sidelines of the UN session, Lebanon organized a workshop entitled, ‘Towards transformational empowerment: the status of rural women in Lebanon’ aimed to highlight the pivotal role of rural women in the agri-food sector and in rural development. The workshop mentioned the main challenges facing the rural woman and spotlighted the innovative experience of the National Observatory for Women in Agriculture and Rural Areas (NOWARA). (Al Mustaqbal, March 27, 2018)
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