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Rescue poor women from dire straits

PM urges rich nations at UN seminar

UNB, New York
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the developed countries for their moral and ethical support to rescue the poor women of the world from their dire straits.
She made the call at a seminar titled
“Economic Empowerment of Rural Women and Food and Nutritional Security” at the Teachers Building in New York yesterday.
Bangladesh cosponsored the event with its development partner, the Royal Dutch Government. The World Food
Program and the United Nations Women organised the event.
The prime minister said if the developed nations keep their promises made at Monterrey, the UN Millennium Summit and the LDC VI in Istanbul, Bangladesh's efforts for women empowerment will result in quick success.
Hasina said she believes that reducing hunger and poverty is indelibly interlinked with achieving gender parity and empowerment of women, and better maternal health.
She referred to the National Women Development Policy with provisions for education, health and employment security, and all policies which are also reflected in Awami League's "Vision 2021” aimed at transforming Bangladesh into a middle income country by 2021.
She said a separate ministry for women together
with food, agriculture, local government, and health are taking integrated policy measures for food and nutrition security of rural women in Bangladesh.
"To ingrain political empowerment, my government's affirmative action has led to the election of 12,828 women to reserved seats in local government and 64 members in parliament.”
Hasina said since the rural households do not have nutrition security, her government is implement-ing Micronutrient Supplementation and National Nutrition Programmes for rural women through satellite community nutrition centres run by female community nutrition workers.
Since education is also a very powerful tool for empowering women, her government is providing girls with free education up to a certain level, she added.
She listed other programmes being implemented for rural empowerment which included the Rural Employment Opportunities for Public Assets (REOPA) that employs rural women in different projects.
She referred to various remarks of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who termed Bangladesh a “rising star" in women's empowerment, a “model member state" in attaining key women related developmentgoals.
Bangladesh achieved MDG-4 and MDG-5 awards during last year's United Nations General Assembly for its contribution to many achievements in empowering rural women and reducing the maternal mortality rates.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, Health Minister AFM Ruhul Haq were, among others, present on the occasion.