You are here
Consultative meeting for combating violence against women
29-3-2018
The office of the minister of state for women’s affairs, in coordination with ESCWA and UNFPA organized yesterday a consultative meeting on developing a ‘national strategy to combat gender-based violence’. The meeting was held under the patronage of minister Jean Ogassapian in the presence of the director of the ESCWA Center for Women (ECW), Mehrinaz Elawady. Ogassapian on the occasion, maintained that setting up a comprehensive strategy to fight violence against women helps to ensure consistency and compatibility of relevant legislations to smoothen their implementation. Besides, the strategy facilitates the amendment of laws that need to be cleared from impairing provisions, and helps in identifying the need to develop new bills to be studied and ratified, the minister added. For her part, Alawadi pointed out that several meetings were held with the ministry for women and other concerned governmental and non-governmental associations to determine the priorities, the scopes and types of violence that should be debated before putting the first draft. Alawadi said participants will put their remarks on the draft during today’s meeting to be followed by a meeting of specialists who will discuss the national action plan that ensures the implementation of the strategy, as well as, to design a monitoring and evaluation framework for the implementation. (Al Mustaqbal, March 29, 2018)
- 1 read
- العربية
Categories
Events
No upcoming events
Job vacancies
Friday, October 9, 2015
Collective for Research and Training on Development - Action (CRTD.A)