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🇵🇰 Today, the 9th #OIC Ministerial Conference on Women opened in Islamabad, 57 Member States, one hall, one question: how do we move from commitment to consequence for women across the OIC?
But before the flags were raised and the senior officials & ministers took their seats, there was this. 👇
⏳ Teams of the Ministry of Human Rights and #UNWomen Pakistan, for more than 16 hours a day, several weeks, with weekends that quietly disappeared, worked day and night to pull this all together.
🙏 Appreciation to the Ms. Saba Sadiq, Parliamentary Secretary, Human Right, Honourable Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, Secretary Abdul Khalique Sheikh, Dr. Arif Laghari, and the entire team of MoHR who made it possible for Pakistan to host the OIC.
🤝 UN Women Pakistan is proud and deeply honoured to have supported the Ministry of Human Rights, Government of Pakistan in convening this Conference, under the theme Socio-Economic and Political Empowerment of Women in OIC Countries: Challenges and the Way Forward.
✍️ Pakistan is not simply hosting a conference. It is holding the pen on the Islamabad Declaration, an instrument that can anchor women's economic participation, political voice, protection from violence, and access to justice as shared priorities across the OIC, not aspirations we return to every few years.
🙏 To the team at MoHR, and to my own colleagues at UN Women under the leadership of Jamshed M. Kazi you worked hand in glove, without ceremony and without a break. You are the reason the substance is strong. Diplomacy is visible. The work that makes diplomacy possible almost never is.
📸 Credit goes to several people who might not be in these pictures, but they are the ones who did it!
Day 1 down.
✨ Will post more on today's proceedings. So watch this space.
Note: These pictures are #BTS moments
#9thOICMinisterialConference #IslamabadDeclaration #UNWomen #ForAllWomenAndGirls #OIC #GenderEquality #Pakistan #WomensEconomicEmpowerment #MinistryOfHumanRights
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