Deputy Minister of Education Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury has highlighted Bangladesh’s unprecedented achievements in women’s equality and empowerment under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
He was speaking as a panellist at the high-level side event titled ‘Tracking the Walk: Measuring progress in Women’s Economic Empowerment’ co-organised by Bangladesh and International Trade Centre (ITC) as part of the ongoing 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN headquarters on March 11, according to a press release received in Dhaka on Wednesday.
The side event was co-sponsored by Namibia, Rwanda, Kenya and UKAid, it added.
In his remarks, the Deputy Minister said, “Our Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had sown the seed of gender parity in our nationhood.
His able daughter, Sheikh Hasina, the present Prime Minister, also followed her father’s footsteps and put advancement of women in the heart of our development endeavours, he said.
“Our Premier Hasina is one of the few world leaders who was present at the adoption of both the MDGs and the SDGs, a unique example of successful and sustained woman leadership,” he continued, reports BSS.
The deputy minister also informed the audience that all of the national plans, development policies and programmes undertaken by Bangladesh are gender responsive where women’s equal contribution to the overall development of the country has been ensured.
The session of the CSW commenced on 11 March and will continue till 22 March 2019.
