UN emphasizes its commitment to support women’s empowerment in Egypt
UN emphasizes its commitment to support women’s empowerment in Egypt
Source : UNDP Egypt
02-Apr-2017
UN emphasizes its
commitment to support women’s empowerment in Egypt
Apr
2, 2017
The month of March was
an important month for women in Egypt. The commemoration of the Day of the
Egyptian Women, the International Women’s Day, and the 61st global Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
culminated in H.E. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s pronunciation of 2017 as
the “Year of Egyptian women”. The United Nations joins Egypt in celebrating the
ingenuity, courage and determination of Egyptian women and the extraordinary
role they play in their families and communities across Egypt, and emphasizes
its commitment to support women’s empowerment in Egypt.
The Government of
Egypt continues to demonstrate its clear commitment and actions to achieve
equality between women and men, and promote women’s social, economic, cultural
and political empowerment through targeted actions, policies, programmes and
legislations. In his pronunciation of 2017 as the “Year of Egyptian women”,
H.E. President Abdel Fattah El Sisi stressed women’s central role for the
future of Egypt, the need to safeguard women’s constitutional rights and for
women to be at the forefront, and outlining expediting steps towards the
empowerment of women.
The United Nations
commends the launch of Egypt’s Women’s Strategy 2030 under the leadership of
the National Council for Women – a pioneer strategy globally for women’s
empowerment – and welcomes the presidential directions to the Government of
Egypt to regard the Egyptian Women’s Strategy 2030 as the reference document
that guides the upcoming work on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In
line with the 2014 Constitution and the Egypt Vision 2030: Sustainable
Development Strategy, the Egyptian Women’s Strategy 2030 is devised to enact
women’s constitutional rights that foster principles of equality and
non-discrimination, equal opportunity, and protection. This affirms the
government’s recognition that social justice and inclusive growth will only be
realized when women are enabled to benefit and contribute as equal citizens to
Egypt’s sustainable development.
In line with these
positive developments, “the UN in Egypt reiterates its commitment to supporting
the Government of Egypt and its partners in their efforts towards local development
solutions to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women,” said the
Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Egypt Mr. Richard Dictus.