The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, will participate at the High
Level Forum for First Ladies at the 68th session of the UN General
Assembly in New York.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event, with the
theme “Building Bridges for Peace on Health Disability: Post 2015
Sustainable Development Agenda Initiative”, is scheduled for Sept. 24.
She is expected to deliver a speech for the opening of the workshop
session, while Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation on the African First
Ladies Fellowship Programme, Nicole Brzeski, will chair the workshop.
The session will address various creative strategies in addressing and
overcoming peace challenges on various forms of women’s health and
well-being.
Dr Ada Okika, the Secretary-General, U.S. Federation of UNESCO
Clubs, Centres and Associations New York State Chapter, told NAN
that the time had come for realistic understanding of the significance
of a transformative agenda to build peace among nations.
“ Peace is directly related to poverty eradication, health care and
improvement, good governance, leadership, social and economic
emancipation and sustainability.
“Throughout its history, there have been global experiences on a wide
range of conflicts, violence and other numerous challenges.
“These challenges must be addressed in order to promote human
development, revitalise infrastructure and establish sustainable peace
in working towards the future that the world want,’’ Okika said.
She noted that people throughout the world desired peace and good
health, adding that women in particular had unique capacities to
promote the peace and achieve positive health.
“ For this reason, we propose to convene First Ladies Forum from all
UN Member States.
“The forum can serve as active agent for peace, building bridges on
women’s health disability and child marriage, and meeting the
challenges for sustainable peace and development of nations,’’ Okika
added.
What should we be expecting???? .......*lip seald*
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