First Meeting of WNC Members [Archives:2000/27/Reportage]

The first meeting of members of Women National Committee (WNC) was inaugurated yesterday at the Police Officers’ Club. The meeting was attended by Dr. Abdul Kareem El-Eryani, Prime Minister, the head of the Supreme Council of Women. The event was also attended by the ministers of Education, Civil Service, members of parliament, members of the Consultative Council, a number of journalists and members of the committee.
During the meeting speeches were delivered by Mrs. Rashidah Al-Hamdani, chairperson of the Women National Committee and ex-chairperson of the committee Mrs. Amat Al-Aleem Al-Sosuwah who was, on the same occasion, honored by Dr. Al-Eryani for her efforts as a former head of the committee. Mrs. Al-Sosuwah has been appointed Yemen’s ambassador to the Netherlands as the first Yemeni woman to hold such a post.
In his speech, Dr. Al-Eryani spoke highly about the pioneering role of women as partners of men in the development process.
In a statement to the Yemen Times Mrs. Horiah Mashhour, vice-chairwoman of the committee described the Supreme Committee of Women as the highest authority at the WNC which outlined the general polices of its different departments. “These departments,” said Horiah, were set up after five years of hard work that coincided with the preparatory period for the Beijing Conference.” “After the elapse of that long period the Committee found it necessary to restructure itself in a way coping with the new changes and developments in regard with women’s situations on both local as well as international levels. It was very necessary to re-draw a national strategy that would serve the Yemeni women,” she added.
The report on women’s situation in Yemen prepared by the Committee consists of 12 premises including different domains within which a number of priorities were also identified. In this context, Mrs. Horiah said that the Supreme Council of Women had to adopt those strategies recommended by the Beijing conference. The council should address all the challenges facing Yemeni women who face regional as well as global challenges within the strategies of economic globalization. “These challenges might appear to some people as simple, however, they are not and women and children are the most affected sectors by such challenges,” Horiah Mashhour concluded.

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