The UAE presents its pioneering model for women’s empowerment and gender balance during New York Political Forum

New York, July 18 / WAM / The delegation of the United Arab Emirates participating in the “high -level political forum on sustainable development 2025”, organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Affairs Department at its headquarters in New York City, presented the UAE’s entrepreneurial model in empowering women, enhancing gender balance and interest in motherhood and childhood as a basis for comprehensive and sustainable growth.

The delegation highlighted the role of the integrated empowerment system that the state provides to women and the family, which in turn constitutes the nucleus of society and the guarantee of the sustainability of development humanly, socially and economically.

In an intervention during the high -level political forum session concerned with the fifth goal of sustainable development and its ties with the rest of the goals, the United Arab Emirates affirmed its firm commitment to empowering women as a basic pillar to achieve the 2030 agenda.

The Emirati delegation reviewed the national policies and legislation that established the position of women in leadership and decision -making sites, including the law of equality in wages and the constitution, which guarantees equal opportunities between the sexes.

The intervention shed light on prominent achievements, including the representation of women by 50% in the Federal National Council, 26% in the Council of Ministers, in addition to their leadership in the future sectors such as artificial intelligence and space, where women make up 46% of graduates of floating, technology, engineering and mathematics specializations, and 80% of the scientific leadership team for the probe.

The intervention touched on the international role of the UAE in supporting women’s empowerment, through qualitative initiatives such as the initiative of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, “Mother of the Emirates”, President of the General Women’s Federation, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, Supreme President of the Family Development Foundation, to empower women in security and peace.

The UAE affirmed its willingness to share its successful experiences and experiences with the international community to enhance joint progress towards achieving gender equality by 2030 and beyond.

The General Secretariat of the National Committee for Sustainable Development and the General Consulate of the UAE in New York City, at the consulate headquarters, organized a high -impact session on accelerating innovation in promoting gender balance to continue achieving sustainable development in the post -2030 stage.

The session dealt with vital axes, most notably bridging the digital gap between the sexes, turning the care economy, and speeding up the empowerment of women in leadership, with expandable solutions and practical models to advance the wheel of progress towards achieving the fifth goal by 2030 and beyond.

The session included interventions from His Excellency Savana Mazia, Minister of Information and Communications Technology in the Kingdom of Swatini and Chairman of the World Council for the Fifth goal, His Excellency Abdullah Lootah, Assistant Minister of Cabinet Affairs for Competitiveness and Knowledge Exchange, Chairman of the National Committee for Sustainable Development Goals, Dr. Manal Tarim, Executive Director and Member of the Board of Trustees, Nour Dubai Foundation, and with the participation of Chelsea Mulden, Executive Director of the Policy Laboratory Public, Stephanie Serotta of RTW Investment in Life Sciences, Andrew Belo, Head of Partnerships at the United Nations Initiative to Eliminate Violence against Women and Girls.

Lootah emphasized that the UAE has established a global pioneering model that supports the growth and progress of societies, and enables women and the family and enhances the gender balance, explaining that the participation of the state delegation in the high -level political forum for the United Nations comes in this context that is supportive of developing its impact on man and the family first.

He said that the UAE has continued over the decades of sustainable development work that is centered around the family and makes the empowerment of society very development and its standpoint, and this is what is keen to participate with everyone around the world to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals of the United Nations for the year 2030.

Lootah added: “We are working through the participation of the state delegation in the high -level political forum for the United Nations on sustainable development 2025, and through the meetings and partnerships that we hold within it, the participation of knowledge and experience gained in enabling all societal groups, to ensure the inclusiveness of development and its positive impact that includes everyone.”

The UAE delegation reviewed to the UN Forum to establish the National Committee for Sustainable Development Goals in 2017, its goals and tasks, during its participation in the event organized by the government of the State of Qatar to introduce the agenda of the second edition of the World Social Development Summit held in Doha from 4 to 6 November next.

The high -ranking political forum on sustainable development represents the main platform of the United Nations in sustainable development issues and has since its foundation in 2012, a pivotal role in following up and reviewing what has been implemented at the level of countries in the 2030 -year development agenda.

The participating delegations are taking place in the forum, an assessment of the achievements of sustainable development with in -depth reviews of five main goals: the goal 3 to ensure a healthy life and enhance the well -being of all in different age groups, the goal 5 concerned with achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls, and the goal of 8 to enhance continuous, comprehensive and sustainable economic growth, empowering productive workers and providing proper work for all, and goal 14 that relates to preserving oceans The seas and marine resources and their use in a sustainable manner, and the 17th goal, which is concerned with strengthening and revitalizing global partnerships in order to achieve sustainable development goals.

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