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.
Posted: at 19-09-2013 05:15 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
abdulwahid at 20-09-2013 10:13 PM (11 years ago) (m)
grammatical intercontinental antibalistic missile...................i beg make she borrow some grammer from PATRICK OBANIABO........our able grammarian
Posted: at 20-09-2013 10:13 PM (11 years ago) | Newbie
That's ok them go wear headphones so no problem about that na...dem go count her words as Greek so headphones go interpret am...no be Yankee ? Technology dey now...fear thou not people..
Posted: at 20-09-2013 10:44 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
Lol she should pls take it easy with grammatical anyway i know she is going with all most all the ministers and cabnet members may be just may be patrick obaniabo will be going to help her out with grammer
Posted: at 20-09-2013 10:49 PM (11 years ago) | Hero
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