Alwaght- Iran’s Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Ensiyeh Khazali has concluded her visit to New York, where she attended the 68th summit of the Commission on the Status of Women.
In New York, Khazali delivered a speech to at the session and held 19 bilateral meetings with the participating representatives on various issues including the necessity of stopping the suffering of the people of Gaza.
Khazali met with the rotating president of the Commission on the Status of Women, who is the Philippine ambassador to the United Nations and also negotiated with ministers and delegates from Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Saudi Arabia, Finland, Qatar, Turkiye, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Norway, Egypt, Libya, Kuwait, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa, Oman and Poland.
She also addressed two panels held on the sidelines of the UN session on women, family and society.
The panel on the empowerment of women and the developed society, which was held under the initiative of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was significantly welcomed by participants from around the world.
In her six-day stay in New York, Khazali also held online talks with Iranian professors, university students and social activists in the United States and met with staff members of the permanent mission of the Islamic Republic at the UN.
Before leaving New York, she told IRNA in an interview that she would inform women from other countries about women’s achievements and successes in Iran.
Khazali expressed hope that the approaches and ideas would come closer together in order to pave the ground for solving women’s problems through interaction and synergy.
She further talked about the issue of Gaza and the problems of children, women and all people there.
The Gazans are suffering from starvation, pressure and massacre, she said, stressing the need to condemn the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on the strip and halt the suffering of the oppressed people there.
At the head of an official delegation, Khazali left for New York on Sunday (March 10) to attend the 68th UN Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which was attended by 101 high-ranking delegations from around the world.
Today, 10.3% of women live in “extreme poverty” and they are poorer than men.
Although the UN session tries to pay attention to measures to eliminate poverty, women in Palestine are getting poorer every second due to the Zionist regime's war in Gaza.
Over 31,000 Palestinians, including mostly women and children, have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
Source: IRNA
