This year’s subject for the IWD, ‘Women in leadership: Achieving the same destiny in a Covid-19 world’, celebrates the wonderful efforts with the aid of using girls and ladies round the sector in shaping an extra same destiny and recuperation from the pandemic.
UAE legal guidelines, political empowerment
In 2019 and 2020, the UAE authorized eleven new legal guidelines and legislative amendments to reinforce girls’ rights and make certain their usual empowerment.
In phrases of political participation, the President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, issued a decision in 2019 to elevate the illustration of girls withinside the Federal National Council (FNC) to 50 in line with cent throughout the 2019 elections.
The UAE issued Federal Decree-regulation No 6 of 2020, amending a few provisions of the Federal Law No. eight of 1980 to provide personnel withinside the personal quarter a paid to depart to take care of the child. The UAE has become the primary Arab USA to do so.
The USA additionally issued the Decree of Federal Law No. 06 for 2020, stipulating same wages for ladies and men withinside the personal quarter, in the event that they carry out the equal work, or any other of same value.
The President additionally authorised Federal Law-Decrees to amend the Penal Code. Based at the UAE’s dedication to defensive girls’s rights, amendments to the Penal Code and Criminal Procedural regulation have repealed the thing giving reduced (lenient) sentence in what’s called “honour crimes”.
Women have been many of the key goal classes in time period of prevention and safety tactics followed with the aid of using the UAE. This become underscored with the aid of using the implementation of far off operating tactics for pregnant girls and moms of college students as much as the 9th grade.
Global drives
The UAE’s efforts aren’t restricted to defensive girls locally, it has additionally released many tasks round the sector. The maximum exquisite are the girls’s fitness telemedicine clinics of the Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Volunteering Programme. It is the primary worldwide telemedicine initiative that offers unfastened diagnosis, remedy and prevention offerings for girls.
Additionally, the UAE’s humanitarian resource to many nations prioritised girls and children.
The UAE has a sturdy and developing dating with UN Women, because it become a member of the government board among 2013 and 2018. It assumed the presidency of the Executive Council of UN Women in 2017.
The UAE has furnished the UN Women monetary assist amounting to about $26 million. This aimed to reinforce its efforts to empower girls worldwide.
The UAE opened a liaison workplace for the UN Women in Abu Dhabi in 2016 in partnership with the General Women’s Union.
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