CAIRO, April 18, 2018 (MENA) - Head of the National Council for Women Dr Maya Morsi participated on Wednesday in a round-table talk on "How to make the 2030 Agenda empower women and girls?" as part of the 2nd day of the Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality. Morsi delivered an address through which she shed light on the achievements of the 2030 Agenda particularly as regards to gender equality and the empowerment of women, a statement released by the council said. Egypt and Sweden are main partners in several programmes that aim at the empowerment of women and girls, she said. She reviewed the status of women in Egypt over the past 10 years and the achievements reached in this domain, asserting Egypt's abidance by reaching the targets of sustainable development on the empowerment of women. Egypt is considered the only Arab country participating in the round-table talk attended by Maimunah Mohd Sharif, the Executive Director of the UN-Habitat, Naoko Ishii, the CEO of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Charlotte Petri-Gornitzka, the Chairperson of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and Henrik Nordentoft, the Regional Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality brings together about 500 key representatives from civil society organisations, governments, business, and academia. The aim is to find solutions, take new initiatives, and strengthen co-operation in the international fight for gender equality.
