Workshop on working women [Archives:2005/822/Local News]

By Saleh Al-Basha
For the Yemen Times
A workshop on the role of woman was concluded Feb. 28 in the city of Hadramout. The two-day workshop discussed and reviewed ways to assist working women in Taiz and Hodeida, appropriate areas of coordination with the ministry, and the role of the International Work Organization in this process.

The event was organized by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor and was funded by the International Work Organization with the participation of 35 members of staff from the Yemeni Laborers Syndicate, the union of commerce, industry chambers, and the bureaus of women's development in the cities of Taiz and Hodeida.

The workshop was attended by Dr. Najwa al-Qusaibi, an expert at the Yemeni Working Women's Development Project, part of the International Work Organization, and Mrs. Nuha al-Aghbari , the General Manager of Working Women's Development.

Speeches were delivered at the inauguration ceremony by Mohammad al-Eriani Undersecretary of Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor for Workforce Sector, Omair Mobarik, Deputy Governor of Hadramout and Darwish Suwaid Director General of Social Affairs and Labor Office in Hadramout. In their speeches, the officials emphasized

the importance of the workshop in empowering women.
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