By NNN-KUNA,
Abu Dhabi : The Kuwaiti Cabinet Committee on Women’s Affairs plans to organise two regional conferences, one on the Arabian Gulf level and the other on the Arab level in December and February, advisor of the committee Dr. Ahmad Al-Bustan said on Friday.
“The first conference will debate the issue of social security while the other will discuss the negative aspects of Arab communities,” Al-Bustan told KUNA following the second conference of the Arab Women Organisation (AWO) which came to a close here on Thursday.
“The committee, chaired by Sheikh Latifa Al-Fahad Al-Salem Al-Sabah, is keen on working out programs for helping women assert themselves in the Kuwaiti civil society,” he asserted.
“The first conference, to be held in December, will focus on social security, educational security and media security and work out a code of conduct on education and mass media.
“The document will be taught to schoolchildren and promoted by mass media across the Arab world.
“It aims to achieve integration between education and culture and promote the creative skills of young people,” he revealed.
“In February, 2009, the committee will organise, in cooperation with the Arab League, a conference on the negative social aspects in the Arab communities.
“The three-day conference will debate several papers on the negative social phenomena,” Al-Bustan went on to say.
“The committee is keen on working with its peers on the regional and international levels as well as the non-government organisations to serve the interests of Kuwaiti women,” he underscores.
“Since their early participation in political activity, Kuwaiti women leaned toward individualism but lacked collective action to achieve the targets of woman empowerment,” he noted.
“Now Kuwait has 20 women’s committees working to defend the rights of women in all fields,” Al-Bustan added.
He praised the decision of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on sending a senior-level Kuwaiti delegation to the just-ended AWO conference.