As you already know, dear delegates, and as you must know, those of you who didn't join us this year, RomeMUN celebrated the International Women's Day with a workshop on women's rights,
chaired by Sharon Ketchum- Public Affairs officer of the Embassy of the United States of America; Eve Crowley- Deputy Director of the Gender Division ,
Equity and Rural Employment of FAO and Clare Bishop-Sambrook, IFAD- consultant on gender issues.
The
meeting focused on the discrimination that women face in terms of
access, ownership and management land rights, detailed the third Millennium Development Goal which targets gender
equality and women's empowerment.
Eve Crowley told the
delegates from the UNHRC committee "giving women access to land is an
investment in humanity and dignity dignity" and "access to land is at
the very root of their histories. It is critical resource for humanity"
The workshop was also an extremely good opportunity for showing an interesting video produced by USAID:
We were happy to read on the Twitter account of the U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies for Food & Agriculture (USUN Rome) how pleased were the speakers to hear the delegates' reaction:
The workshop was part of the second day of the Rome Model United Nations conference.
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