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Empowering women, lifting social and legal injustice
17-4-2019
The representative of the Danish Institute for Human Rights in the Middle East, Hanna Ziadeh, told An Nahar newspaper that since the mid-nineties of the past century, which saw the launch of the Beijing Platform for Action, participating countries have sought to improve the status of women and lift injustices to this end. Ziadeh, who was partaking in the advisory meeting in Beirut between ESCWA and representatives of civil society and human rights groups in the Arab world, pointed to the progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration. He said that not achieving the desired goals after 25 years of work, is due not only to the patriarchal mindset or in the interpretation of misleading religious, social and cultural beliefs, but also to the defensive approaches taken by those who speak for gender justice. “We always handle the issue of women’s rights as a problem that needs relevant resources in order to reach the anticipated noble principles,” Ziadeh maintained. In conclusion, he stressed that women empowerment and lifting the social and legal injustices is not only for the interest of women, but also contributes to finding solutions to persistent challenges, like fighting poverty and corruption and facing the marginalization of many groups. (An Nahar, April 17, 2019)
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