Shura Council Deputy Speaker affirms Qatar commitment to supporting women

Moscow: Deputy Speaker of the Shura Council HE Dr. Hessa bint Hassan Al Sulaiti affirmed the State of Qatars commitment to supporting women and enhanc...

Moscow: Deputy Speaker of the Shura Council HE Dr. Hessa bint Hassan Al Sulaiti affirmed the State of Qatars commitment to supporting women and enhancing their role across various developmental and societal fields. She also called for empowering women and strengthening their participation in achieving global peace.

In her speech at the opening of the Third International Forum Woman of the Third Millennium, which began today in Moscow and will continue for two days, she said that under its wise leadership, the State of Qatar has set a model for empowering women, providing all means to enable Qatari women to become active partners in the national development process.

She added that women in Qatar now play a pivotal role in the labor market, in addition to their role in nurturing and caring for families, making them key supporters of men and foundational to the stability and prosperity of the nation.

Her Excellency emphasized the importance of this forum in fostering dialogue on womens issues and the challenges they face, especially in light of current crises in certain troubled regions. She highlighted the suffering of millions of women and girls in conflict areas, who are subjected to severe abuses beyond domestic violence, including displacement, blockade, starvation, and violence, stressing that these crimes require immediate international intervention to protect womens rights amidst wars and conflicts.

She also noted the atrocities committed against women in Palestine and Lebanon due to brutal aggression and genocidal campaigns by the occupying Israeli forces that have persisted without pause for more than a year, resulting in over 43,000 deaths, most of whom were women, children, the elderly, and the sick. She called this one of the worst crimes in modern history, witnessed in silence by the international community.