18 - 24 January 2001
Issue No.517
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 18 - 24 January 2001 Issue No.517 |
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Redefining women's role
MRS SUZANNE MUBARAK, head of Egypt's National Council for Women (NCW) and the Arab Women's Summit, announced on Saturday that the next Arab women's summit will be convened in Morocco in November. Following a preparatory committee meeting at the NCW headquarters attended by representatives of 19 Arab countries, the Arab League and the Hariri Foundation, Mrs Mubarak also announced the decision to hold five forums in the run-up to the summit to discuss key issues highlighted by the first Arab Women's Summit, held in Cairo last November.
The first forum, "Women and the law", will be held in Bahrain in April, followed by "Women and politics" in Tunisia in May. The third, "Women and society", will be held in Iraq in June and the fourth, "Women and the media", will be in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in July. The final meeting, centred on "Women and emigration", will take place in Jordan in August. Recommendations by the forums will be used as the basis of discussions for the second summit, Mrs Mubarak said. Another meeting of the preparatory committee will be held next month to discuss organisational matters.
Speaking on the success of the first Arab Women's Summit, Mrs Mubarak lauded the meeting as giving "new meaning to the role of Arab women." She called the collective spirit "a radical shift on the path of progress for Arab women," and underscored the need to keep this enthusiasm alive: "In order for this qualitative shift to flourish, efforts on this new track that we initiated must be sustained."
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