The session was opened by the President of the S&D Group, Martin Schulz; other panel members included leaders from women movements from UfM country members such as;\u00a0 iAlgeria, Turkey, Egypt and Jordan.\u00a0 The Moroccan Minister for Social Development, Family and Solidarity, H.E. Dr. Nouzha Skalli,\u00a0 also addressed the Round Table.<\/p>\n
The roundtable aimed at\u00a0 raising awareness, promoting and implementing the commitments made by the Euro-Med countries, in the framework of action on strengthening the role of women in society, based on the Marrakech Ministerial Conference on Women (November 2009).\u00a0\u00a0 It dealt with a number strategic axes \u2013 inter alia, women in the economy and enterprise, women in technology and their access to education, as well as analyzing initiatives, programmes, and financial instruments that could be used to enhance the role of women in decision-making positions.<\/p>\n
In brief, participants outlined action that had been taken over the recent years with the aim of promoting and strengthening the role of women within their respective countries.\u00a0\u00a0 Speakers also spoke about the need to secure collective action in an effort to effectively and visibly promote and empower women within the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brussels – Mrs. Cecilia Attard-Pirotta, UfMS Deputy Secretary General for Social and Civil Affairs participated as keynote speaker at the round table, organized by the Group of the progressive Alliances of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, on Promoting the woman’s role in the Mediterranean \u2013 Her implications and involvement in economic life as the best way to access decision-making positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"priority-area":[],"class_list":["post-6579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-62"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6579"},{"taxonomy":"priority-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufmsecretariat.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/priority-area?post=6579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}