FCT Minister seeks global support for Women at UN Forum

By Omeiza Ajayi 

ABUJA: Minister of State successful the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Dr Mariya Mahmoud, has called for stronger planetary enactment to beforehand women’s economical empowerment, describing it arsenic a cardinal pathway to poorness reduction, equity and lasting peace.

Special Assistant connected Media to the minister, Mr Austin Elemue said Mahmoud made the telephone successful New York, the United States, during an economical empowerment forum held connected the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly.

The lawsuit brought unneurotic women governmental leaders, economical experts, manufacture giants, innovators, diplomats and policymakers nether the theme: “Scaling Women’s Economic Empowerment: Financing Inclusive Growth for Peace, Development, and Human Rights.”

Mahmoud expressed restitution that nether the enactment of President Bola Tinubu, the Renewed Hope Agenda has placed sex inclusion, younker improvement and entrepreneurship astatine the bosom of governance.

She stressed that the FCT Administration remains committed to providing an enabling situation wherever women person equitable entree to finance, skills and markets to lend afloat to nationalist development.

“This gathering underscores the information that sex equality is not a privilege but a cardinal right, and financing inclusive maturation is simply a work we indispensable each shoulder. By placing women astatine the centre of economical development, we put successful the translation of families, communities, and nations”, Mahmoud said.

She commended the forum’s organizers for creating a level to stock ideas, policies and strategies that could accelerate advancement connected women’s empowerment, adding that inclusive maturation and quality rights indispensable stay cardinal to planetary improvement efforts.

The forum served arsenic a level for stakeholders crossed sectors to illustration actionable strategies that beforehand women’s empowerment arsenic a operator of bid and sustainable development.

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