Women’s National CommitteeMerging women’s issues into the Millennium Goals [Archives:2004/773/Community]

By Fahmia AL-Fotih
For the Yemen Times
The Women's National Committee (WNC) in collaboration with Oxfam organized on Monday 7th September a meeting to merge women's issues within the Millennium Goals for development and the poverty alleviation strategy.
The members of WNC from all branches in different governorates participated in the meeting.
Rasheeda AL-Hamdani, the head of WNC, in statement to the Yemen Times said, “This the first meeting that gathers almost all the members of WNC from various provinces. Oxfam is supporting this meeting. The meeting aims at raising awareness among our members and coordinators in all the governorates about gender, poverty alleviation and the mechanisms that WNC should prepare to merge women issues within the next set of plans.”
She further added, “Our members are divided into 5 working groups. Each group will discuss a dimension. Then those groups will then prepare the needs of women and gender issues. Our aim in WNC is to raise the awareness about such vital issues in all the governorates through our branches members and coordinators.”
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