Maya Morsi, president of the government-funded National Council for Women Rights (NCWR) will participate in the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) that will take place at the UN headquarters in New York, the council said. The session will focus on women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work, especially indigenous women. It will also review challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls, according to agreed conclusions of the 58th session. In a statement published Sunday by the NCWR, Morsi said that the council’s campaign “Al-ta’marbouta is Your Strength” in Egypt will be internationalised during one of the side events of the session. This comes in light of “Women’s Year 2017” announced by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.

Source: Daily News Egypt March 14, 2017 15:00 UTC