NEW YORK – 18 May 2021 – Today, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) announced the signing of an agreement to support the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, as well as to enhance the voices of women, youth, and persons with
Mr. President, The United Arab Emirates would like to thank Viet Nam for organizing this important and timely open debate and Mark Lowcock, Peter Maurer, and Kevin Rudd for their briefings. The UAE strongly supports an enhanced focus at the Security Council on preventative and reactive measures to protect infrastructure that enables civilian to survive
The United Arab Emirates thanks Viet Nam for organizing this open debate, as well as Special Representative Pramila Patten, and other briefers for their powerful insights. It has now been more than twenty years since the Security Council formally called on parties in conflict to protect women and girls from wartime sexual violence for the
NEW YORK – 7 April 2021 – The UAE invited the international community to share perspectives on action-focused commitments on the role of youth to implement the Sustainable Development Goals in a post-COVID-19 world and to maintain the ongoing dialogue between youth and decision-makers at the UN. Speaking to more than 10,000 participants via a
NEW YORK – 26 March 2021 – The UAE underscored its commitment to empowering women as partners and active contributors across all aspects of society during the 65th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The UAE delegation to the two-week hybrid meetings was led by Minister of Community Development H.E. Hessa
NEW YORK – 19 March 2021 – The United Arab Emirates reaffirmed its longstanding commitment to achieving gender equality and advancing the role of women at the sixty-fifth session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. H.E. Hessa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development, delivered the statement on behalf of the UAE at the
Check against delivery Thank you Nihal. Excellencies, I am very pleased to join you today to celebrate the first International Day of Human Fraternity. It is heartening to see people coming together from across the globe to promote interreligious dialogue and speak up against religious bigotry and other forms of discrimination. I would also like
The Abrahamic Family House, a Symbol of Religious Inclusion Inspired by the visit of Pope Francis to the UAE in 2019 the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi will serve as a global beacon of religious tolerance, co-existence, and inclusion. This project of religious inclusion and interfaith dialogue was announced at a time when religious
