كتب محمود فهمى
.خلال زيارتها القصيرة للقاهرة إتفقت الدكتورة ٱية السيف الأمين العام لوكالة المدن المتحدة والقيادية البارزة بشبكة إعلام المرأة العربية مع المستشار الإعلامي د. معتز صلاح الدين رئيس شبكة إعلام المرأة العربية على عقد ندوة قريبا من خلال تعاون مشترك جديد بين وكالة المدن المتحدة وشبكة إعلام المرأة العربية وستكون هذه الفعالية هى الثانية وقد تم الاتفاق على أن تكون الندوة تستهدف أساسا إدماج المرأة الأفريقية فى شبكة إعلام المرأة العربية التى تضم حاليا قيادات أغلبها نسائية فى 18دولة عربية والنساء العربيات بالمهجر فى أمريكا و9دول أوروبية وسوف تتضمن الندوة اوراق عمل عن أهمية والجوانب الإيجابية لإدماج المرأة الأفريقية فى الشبكة كما تتضمن الندوة حضور شخصية نسائية أفريقية بارزة تتولى رئاسة لجنة المرأة الأفريقية بالشبكة كما تتولى أيضا منصب مستشار الشبكة لشؤون المرأة الأفريقية . الجدير بالذكر أنه سبق أن نظمت الوكالة والشبكة ندوة ودورة تدريبية مشتركة فى شهر نوفمبر الماضى حضرها 120من السيدات والرجال منهم 85سيدة من 8دول عربية حيث تلقوا دورة تدريبية فى الصحة النفسية والتنمية البشرية والتغذية العلاجية والأغذية المقوية للمناعة BUILDING BRIDGE OF FRIENDSHIP AMONG ARAB AND AFRICAN WOMEN
The arrangement to integrate African Women into the Arab Women’s Media Network has reached an advance stage. Dr. Moataz Salah El-Din, the President of Arab Women Media Network made the statement recently in Cairo, Egypt during an Award Ceremony in honour of Dr. Eya Essif, prominent African woman and Secretary General, United Towns Agency for North South Cooperation.
According to Dr. Salah El-Din, a symposium will soon be organized by the Arab Women’s Media Network in collaboration with the United Towns Agency for North South Cooperation. The symposium will be attended by leaders, mostly women from 18 Arab countries, Arab Women in the diaspora in America and 9 European countries. The symposium will include working papers on the importance and positive aspects of integrating African Women in the Network.
Eya Essif, prominent leader in Arab Women’s Media Network and human rights advocate was honoured by the Network for her numerous achievements in the promotion of global peace, fighting for the less privileged across the globe, continuous demand for the implementation of universal human right policy by the United Nations and her active and successful participation in a large number of international events for the United Nations and European Union.
Eya, in lending her voice on the need for African Women to be part of the Network reiterated that African Women and their Arabian counterpart have a lot in common ranging from cultural and economic values. By working together for the interest of both groups, it will bring about better integration, mutual understanding and other benefits accruable in a symbiotic relationship; Eya further opined.
More so, the close ties and proximity between Africa and the Arab nation are an added advantage to such relationship. While concluding, she affirmed that the coming together of Arab and African Women through the Network will create a brighter opportunity for a more mutual bilateral relation between the government and leaders of Arab and African countries.
Based on the numerous benefits inherent in the relationship, she urged the organizers of the forum to expedite action towards actualizing the union.
Recall that the United Towns Agency and the Arab Women’s Media Network on November last year organized a symposium and a joint training course attended by 120 Women and Men, including 85 Women from 8 Arab countries. During the symposium participants received training from experts in Mental Health, Human Development, Therapeutic Nutrition and Immune-Boosting Foods.
