Manal bint Mohammed: Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak is a global symbol of devotion and giving to serve humanity and support women wherever they are

The wife of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the Emirates Council for Gender Balance and President of the Dubai Women Foundation, congratulated His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and His Highness members of the Supreme Council of the Federation, Rulers of the Emirates, on the occasion of International Women's Day.

Her Highness also offered her warmest congratulations and blessings to Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, President of the General Women's Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairperson of the Family Development Foundation (Mother of the Emirates) on this occasion, praising the initiatives of Her Highness that extended to all regions of the world with the aim of supporting and advancing women and encouraging them to rise Her deserved role in various developmental fields in all societies, stressing that Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak is a global symbol of dedication, sincerity and giving to serve humanity and support women wherever they are, efforts that were and are still appreciated and respected worldwide.

Her Highness expressed her deep thanks and appreciation to the wise leadership for the attention paid by Emirati women at all levels, supported by pioneering legislation, policies and initiatives that had a great impact in consolidating women's rights and promoting gender balance as a sustainable approach that established the principles of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, kind father. May God rest his soul, what made the Emirati experience in supporting women and gender balance a pioneering and inspiring regional model for many countries of the world, as well as a qualitative leap in the country's ranking in global competitiveness indicators, and it was issued regionally by the two most important reports, which are the World Bank report “Women, Business and Law 2021”, Which monitors government efforts around the world to empower women economically through laws, policies and procedures through 8 axes, where the UAE achieved first place in the Middle East and North Africa, achieving a quantum leap to reach 82.5 points in the overall index with achieving the full score (100 points) in 5 axes: Freedom of movement, work, wages, entrepreneurship, and pensions, in addition to the "Gender Equality Report 2020" issued by the United Nations Program.

United Development, in which it jumped to 18th in the world while maintaining the first place in the Arab world.

Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum extended greetings and appreciation to women in the UAE and around the world for their strenuous efforts and efforts to deal with the Corona crisis and their perseverance in addressing this global pandemic, stressing that these efforts had a tangible effect in reducing the repercussions of the health hazard. Economically and socially, through its presence in the medical teams and all sectors that represent the first line of defense against this fierce crisis, in addition to its role in mitigating the psychological effects it caused to children by being next to them, it provides them with psychological and moral support and educational care.

His Highness, President of the Emirates Council for Gender Balance and President of the Dubai Women Foundation, said that the high representation of Emirati women in leadership and decision-making positions and their wide participation in various fields with the support of the wise leadership, and the successful handling of the UAE with the challenges of (Covid-19), which was praised by the international community As a role model, he embodied the correct application of the concept of gender balance in the country in view of the great efforts made by women alongside men in the front ranks to confront this challenge within the state of community cohesion and cohesion between the government and all segments of society, and realistically expresses the slogan of celebrating International Women's Day for the year 2021 “Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in the World of COVID-19”,

Her Highness added that the wise leadership has worked from an early age to encourage the enrollment of Emirati women in various sectors, including the specialized fields, and today we see the fruits of this approach represented in the achievements made by women in these sectors, including the medical and scientific sector and the field of scientific research and their representation in them at high rates. Its participation in the health sector, for example, is about 61% among doctors, nurses, pharmacists and technicians, and it constitutes more than 45% of the total workers in the UAE space program, and has made remarkable achievements in the sectors of engineering, aviation, science and advanced technology, research and other specialized and future sectors. This reflects the insightful vision of our wise leadership of the importance and impact of consolidating the gender balance in progress towards more achievements in the development process of the state, especially with the preparation for the next fifty years in which gender balance is one of its priorities, and what this entails in terms of enhancing the participation of women and preparing the means that qualify them to achieve more Of successes and accomplishments.

Her Highness said that the Emirates Council for Gender Balance will continue its efforts during the coming period in cooperation with all state institutions to achieve this vision, noting that national cooperation efforts during the past two years have resulted in the approval of new laws and policies and legislative improvements for more than 20 legal articles related to women, including work, political participation and conditions. Personality, the judiciary, wages, banking transactions, freedom of movement, marriage, entrepreneurship, property and retirement pensions, referring to the positive social and economic repercussions of these legislation and its role in raising the UAE's position in global reports and consolidating the gender balance in the country.

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