Middle East
UN highlights Kurdistan Region's advances in gender equality
Kurdistan 24
The comments came after a representative from UN Women met with KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani on Thursday. (Photo: Archive)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The United Nations on Thursday highlighted the Kurdistan Region’s progress efforts toward gender equality and harmony between different ethnicities and faiths.
The comments came after Mohammad Naciri, Regional Director for the Arab States for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) led a delegation to the office of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani.
In the meeting, Barzani and Naciri discussed methods to support, enable, and promote women to take on roles in political and economic fields and how to encourage them to run for public office, read a social media post by UN women summarizing the session.
Read more at: http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/8b2f9404-b152-40b3-b2b0-7ddbb7440c22
Couldn't resist that photo. Good if there is some "gender equality", I'm not sure I'd totally buy the UN definition.
