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Experts discuss welfare plan for women, children

 The UAE has taken significant measures to raise awareness on the risks women, children and adolescents are facing across the world, Shaikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union (GWU), Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF) and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, said.
"Our state has become a model to be emulated in granting these vital segments in the community their complete rights to enable them achieve development and progress. By doing so, the UAE has occupied a prominent ranking in international reports and indices measuring the state of affairs of women, children, and adolescents," she said in a keynote address at the Experts' Consultation Meeting on reproductive, maternal, babies, child and adolescent health: life-saving priorities in all settings.
The Abu Dhabi meeting, which assembles an elite galaxy of international multi-sectoral experts and specialists, is being convened at a crucial time when these groups are facing unprecedented threats in different parts of the world including deprivation of simple basic human rights.
They, Shaikha Fatima noted, are victims of wars, discrimination, poverty, famine and other life-threatening risks. In her address at the two-day meeting in Abu Dhabi, read out on her behalf by Reem Al Falasy, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, Shaikha Fatima said, thanks to the far-sighted vision of the President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, women, children and adolescents have become the cornerstone for realising sustainable social and economic development and ensuring stability, progress and welfare of the society.
As many as 70 key stakeholders and representatives from 32 local, regional and international organisations gathered in Abu Dhabi on Monday to develop a 5-year plan for implementation of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health (2016-2030).
The meeting is part of the efforts to implement the updated Global Strategy 2016-2030 for Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health, which was launched by the United Nations (UN) in September 2015, building on new evidence since the original Global Strategy of 2010, and aligning with the targets and indicators developed for the framework of Sustainable Development Goals.
Over the two-day meeting, multi-disciplinary experts will explore options available for supporting the implementation of strategies and approaches in an effective way and conduct research needed to bridge the existing gaps in issues concerning health of women, children and adolescents.
In her welcome address, Princess Sarah Zeid, Director, Every Woman Every Child Everywhere Movement, expressed her deep gratitude to Shaikha Fatima for her unwavering commitment to providing all forms of support to the vital segments of women, babies, children and adolescents everywhere in the world, particularly those reeling under hazardous circumstances. 

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