{"id":32262,"date":"2019-02-07T23:23:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32262"},"modified":"2019-02-07T23:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:23:26","slug":"un-praises-uae-for-arab-women-peacekeeper-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32262","title":{"rendered":"UN praises UAE for Arab women peacekeeper training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1448781\/middle-east\" readability=\"64.5721800117\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Jean-Pierre Lacroix, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, has praised the launching of a military and peacekeeping program for Arab women in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Lacroix hailed the program as a step toward achieving \u201cgender parity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore good news concerning our call for more women in @UNPeacekeeping from the United Arab Emirates,\u201d he said on Twitter. \u201cGender parity is achievable with sustained effort by all partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The military and peacekeeping program for Arab women was launched this week at the Khawla bint Al Azwar Military School in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.70447761194\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More good news concerning our call for more women in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNPeacekeeping?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNPeacekeeping<\/a> from the United Arab Emirates where a military &#038; peacekeeping programme for Arab women was launched this week. Gender parity is achievable with sustained effort by all partners. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/A4P?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#A4P<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WPS?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WPS<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7NWhhDuBBz\">https:\/\/t.co\/7NWhhDuBBz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jean-Pierre Lacroix (@Lacroix_UN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lacroix_UN\/status\/1093505561193267200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The step is aimed at achieving gender balance in the UAE and promotes women\u2019s representation in all work avenues, state news agency WAM reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, wife of the late UAE\u2019s founder, said the UAE\u2019s collaboration with UN Women to host the Arab women military and peacekeeping capacity-building training program is \u201ca testament to the great confidence in the country\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheikha Fatima, who is also the Chairwoman of the General Women\u2019s Union, GWU, highlighted the UAE\u2019s support to women\u2019s participation in maintaining peace and security in the Arab region.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UN Women on 28 Sept. 2018, to develop the capabilities of Arab women in military and peacekeeping operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Jean-Pierre Lacroix, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, has praised the launching of a military and peacekeeping program for Arab women in the United Arab Emirates. Lacroix hailed the program as a step toward achieving \u201cgender parity.\u201d \u201cMore good news concerning our call for more women in @UNPeacekeeping from the United Arab Emirates,\u201d he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}