BSS, Dhaka :
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatun Nesa Indira urged the United Nations (UN) Women and International Organizations to support women’s employment and development during the global coronavirus pandemic.
“Women around the world are facing a variety of financial, social and health crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. Women are losing their jobs and entrepreneurs’ businesses have been closed,” she said this recently while delivering a virtual speech at a conference.
The state minister addressed a video conference “Towards Gender Responsive Covid-19 Recovery: Experience from Asia and Pacific” at the UN Women’s Regional Office in Bangkok.
Director of UN Women’s Regional Office in Bangkok Mohammad Naciri moderated the virtual conference, where nine women affairs ministers from Asia Pacific region joined.
Anita Bhatia, assistant secretary general of UN and executive director of UN Women, gave a welcome address.
In her speech, the state minister said due to the corona infection globally, the standard of women has dropped and they are being subjected to violence.
She has urged the UN agencies, international development agencies and development partners to come forward with aid for working women, women entrepreneurs and businesswomen affected by the coronavirus crisis.
Indira said 70 percent of doctors, nurses and health workers working as front fighters in dealing the Covid-19 were women, adding, “Women are not at home now when the world is in crisis. In Bangladesh too, women are working in various challenging professions including health sector with skills and bold leadership holding upper positions.” She made some recommendations including financial assistance, home-based work and access to all public and private personalities for providing help in Asia-Pacific region to overcome the corona crisis.
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatun Nesa Indira urged the United Nations (UN) Women and International Organizations to support women’s employment and development during the global coronavirus pandemic.
“Women around the world are facing a variety of financial, social and health crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. Women are losing their jobs and entrepreneurs’ businesses have been closed,” she said this recently while delivering a virtual speech at a conference.
The state minister addressed a video conference “Towards Gender Responsive Covid-19 Recovery: Experience from Asia and Pacific” at the UN Women’s Regional Office in Bangkok.
Director of UN Women’s Regional Office in Bangkok Mohammad Naciri moderated the virtual conference, where nine women affairs ministers from Asia Pacific region joined.
Anita Bhatia, assistant secretary general of UN and executive director of UN Women, gave a welcome address.
In her speech, the state minister said due to the corona infection globally, the standard of women has dropped and they are being subjected to violence.
She has urged the UN agencies, international development agencies and development partners to come forward with aid for working women, women entrepreneurs and businesswomen affected by the coronavirus crisis.
Indira said 70 percent of doctors, nurses and health workers working as front fighters in dealing the Covid-19 were women, adding, “Women are not at home now when the world is in crisis. In Bangladesh too, women are working in various challenging professions including health sector with skills and bold leadership holding upper positions.” She made some recommendations including financial assistance, home-based work and access to all public and private personalities for providing help in Asia-Pacific region to overcome the corona crisis.
