UN: Ms. Hayar chairs assembly on ladies’s financial empowerment in New York

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2024-06-24 03:08:44

Organized Wednesday by the ministry in collaboration with the Nationwide Union of Girls of Morocco, the United Nations Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA) and the Spanish worldwide cooperation company, this assembly is a part of the 68th session of the Fee on the Standing of Girls, which is being held at UN headquarters from March 11 to 22.

Talking on this event, Ms. Hayar introduced Morocco’s “pioneering” expertise within the discipline of empowering significantly susceptible ladies by counting on new applied sciences, stressing that the Kingdom, below the management of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI applied a sequence of reforms which opened new views for ladies and ladies and contributed to their emancipation.

Amongst these main reforms, the minister cited the mission for the generalization of social safety launched by His Majesty the King, noting that this initiative goals specifically to generalize obligatory medical insurance, to cut back poverty and social disparities, and to help the buying energy of households, together with these headed by ladies, who signify roughly 17% of all households in Morocco.

All Moroccans now profit from medical protection, and this since 2022, together with needy people who find themselves not in a position to contribute to the medical insurance system, she indicated, recalling the launch in December 2023 of the direct social help program which goals to enhance the residing circumstances of households.

Ms. Hayar additionally indicated that in 2023, His Majesty the King launched the method of revising the Household Code, which is being accomplished in a collective and participatory method, with the goal of strengthening the steadiness throughout the household in step with the Structure and worldwide conventions ratified by Morocco.

She additionally recalled the initiatives launched by the federal government geared toward strengthening entry to financing reminiscent of “Forsa”, “Intilaka” and “GISSR” devoted to ladies in tough conditions, in addition to the Nationwide Monetary Inclusion Technique.

Addressing the state of affairs of Palestinian ladies and ladies, the minister recalled that His Majesty King Mohammed VI, President of the Al Quds Committee, despatched a message to the Extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit, which was held final November in Riyadh, during which the Sovereign requires a long-lasting and verifiable ceasefire and for the sleek supply and in adequate portions of humanitarian support for the advantage of the populations of Gaza.

She additional indicated that His Majesty the King had given His Very Excessive Directions to deploy a humanitarian operation of meals support, by land, meant for the Palestinian inhabitants of Gaza.

This occasion was attended by the Palestinian Minister of Girls’s Affairs, Amal Hamad, the vice-president of the Nationwide Union of Girls of Morocco, Amina Oufroukhi, the final director of the Arab Girls’s Group, Fadia Kiwan and Abdellah Yaakoubd representing UNFPA.

They’re additionally the consultant of the Spanish worldwide cooperation company in New York and representatives specifically from Hungary and the Republic of South Korea, along with officers from the United Nations System and worldwide organizations.

Ms. Hayar leads the Moroccan delegation to the 68th session of the United Nations Fee on the Standing of Girls, this yr below the theme “Accelerating the achievement of equality between women and men and the empowerment of all ladies and ladies by tackling poverty and strengthening establishments and financing from a perspective of equality between women and men”.

On the sidelines of this occasion, the minister held a sequence of interviews with a number of UN officers, together with the manager director of UN Girls, Sima Bahous.

She additionally met with the Ivorian Minister of Girls, Household and Youngsters, Assénéba Touré, and a number of other ministers chargeable for equality, notably from Sweden, Paulina Brandberg, from Australia, Katy Gallagher, from Mali, Wadidie Founè Coulibaly in addition to a number of member state officers.

Ms. Hayar additionally met the Turkish Minister accountable for Household, Labor and Social Companies, Mahinur Göktaş with whom she signed a partnership settlement on cooperation between Morocco and Turkey in social affairs, equality gender and household.

The minister additionally participated in an occasion organized by the World Financial institution on “Partaking ladies as leaders to finish poverty on a livable planet”, in addition to a number of aspect occasions organized by the European Union, the Spain, Sweden, Lebanon and Libya.

2024-06-24 03:08:44

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