Speaking at the Arab International Women's Forum (AIWF) in Dubai, professor Aicha Belarbi told delegates that due to this Arab nations continue to lag behind the rest of the world in terms of female representation in the workforce and government.
More than 75 young people from Bahrain, Oman and Qatar are taking part in a three-day leadership conference which opened at the Royal Society for Women in East Riffa yesterday.
A regional seminar on "Gender and Local Governance" held on March 14 in the Tunisian capital highlighted the close link between "economic and domestic development and women’s participation in local politics".
On April 20-22, AWID, together with the Global Fund for Women, convened a feminist strategy meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, to discuss feminist resource mobilisation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
The media’s handling of women’s issues has always generated heated debates in different communities around the world, and the Arab region is no exception.
In July 2008, NDI organized the inaugural MENA Regional Young Women Leaders Academy in Doha, Qatar, which gathered together young women leaders from the Middle East and North Africa.
In an address given during the second Arab Women’s Conference, held in Abu Dhabi on November 11 and 12, 2008, Tunisia’s First Lady said that “improving women’s condition in Arab societies, endowing them with the means of exerting their rights and duties, while guaranteeing their dignity is part a
Habil, a 53 year-old Christian lawyer, beat five male candidates, including her younger brother, to become mayor of the predominantly Coptic Christian town of Komboha in southern Egypt.
Dubai A first of its kind independent study assessing the role of women in politics in the UAE was released on Monday at the Dubai School of Government.