The Meals and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has honoured H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Mom of the Nation, Chairwoman of the Basic Ladies’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Household Growth Basis (FDF), for her vital contributions in areas of girls’s empowerment and sustainable growth at each nationwide and international ranges.
This recognition is a part of the FAO’s eightieth anniversary celebrations and highlights the organisation’s long-standing efforts to advertise meals safety, remove starvation, and advance sustainable growth worldwide.
The occasion included a particular video presentation showcasing H.H. Sheikha Fatima’s pivotal function in shaping insurance policies that advance the rights and empowerment of girls, each within the UAE and globally.
The video spotlighted H.H. Sheikha Fatima’s management in supporting a number of main programmes geared toward enhancing ladies’s entry to training, healthcare, and financial alternatives. It additionally emphasised her dedication to sustainable growth, notably in areas corresponding to poverty discount, starvation alleviation and local weather motion.
Kian Akram Al Jaf, Head of Mission of the FAO Sub-regional Workplace for the GCC and Yemen, mentioned, “The UAE’s management continues to exhibit a deep dedication to sustainable growth, with a selected deal with addressing starvation and poverty. The legacy of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan stays a supply of inspiration. The Sheikh Zayed Centre for Media and Information on the FAO headquarters in Rome is a testomony to the robust partnership between the UAE and FAO in advancing agriculture and meals safety.”
Noura Khalifa Al Suwaidi, Secretary-Basic of the Basic Ladies’s Union, accepted the award on behalf of H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, throughout the occasion which was attended by officers, dignitaries and representatives of diplomatic missions within the UAE.
Noura Khalifa Al Suwaidi, Secretary-Basic of the Basic Ladies’s Union, emphasised the importance of H.H. Sheikha Fatima’s function in nationwide growth, “Since its founding, the UAE has been dedicated to enhancing the prosperity of its residents and contributing to international growth initiatives.
H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak’s management has been a driving pressure behind the empowerment of girls. On the Basic Ladies’s Union, we proceed to observe her visionary method, guaranteeing the lively participation of girls in all facets of societal and financial growth.”
The ceremony was held yesterday on the Basic Ladies’s Union headquarters in Abu Dhabi, marking an essential event within the international battle for meals safety and ladies’s rights. The occasion was organized in collaboration with UN Ladies, underscoring the collaboration between the UAE and worldwide organizations to advance these key points.
Dr. Mouza Al Shehhi, Director of the UN Ladies Liaison Workplace for the GCC, praised the UAE’s assist for girls’s empowerment: “It’s a great second to return collectively to recognise H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak for her extraordinary contributions to international ladies’s empowerment. Her management has formed the UAE’s insurance policies and impressed worldwide efforts to deal with environmental challenges. The UAE’s partnership with UN Ladies highlights its dedication to supporting ladies as brokers of change within the battle for sustainable growth.”
For eight many years, FAO has harnessed international efforts to attain sustainable growth targets, notably in meals safety, local weather adaptation and gender equality. The celebration highlights ladies’s central function within the international efforts to deal with these challenges. The partnership between the UAE and FAO stays a mannequin of how international collaboration can drive constructive change in attaining a extra sustainable and equitable future for all.
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