Group 3 Other Recommendations including Gender issues

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Group -3 Other Recommendations including Gender
issues

• Moderator
• Dr. Naushin Mahmood, PIDE, Islamabad
• Assisted by
• Dr. Sameena Afghan, MoPW
• Participants
• 26 including foreign delegates from Algeria,
  Libya, Palestine and Syria
• Presenters
• Mr. Refaat M. Hejazi,
• DG Human Development, PM Office, Planning
  Commission, Syrian Arab Republic
• 2. Ms. Tahira Abdullah,
• Development Worker and Activist

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• Ulama need to recognize their responsibility to
  advocate the importance of education, health,
  womens empowerment, population and development,
  as part of enlightened Islamic teaching.
• Ulama need to emphasize that womens empowerment
  is completely within the teachings and
  injunctions of Islam.

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• Imams and Khateebs could be an important platform
  to advocate and sensitize men on the importance
  of womens empowerment, especially education,
  reproductive health, economic activity, decision
  making power, mobility, assets ownership and
  inheritance rights.
• It is important to recognize women, not as a
  separate sector, but as half the population of
  Muslim countries, with equal rights and
  responsibilities and opportunities for
  development and empowerment.

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• Ministries of Population and Health need to work
  with Ministries, Commission and Committees
  responsible for womens issues to promote inter
  linkages and gender mainstreaming.
• To address feminization of poverty, our
  governments need to focus on reduction of women
  living in poverty, especially in rural areas,
  with special measures for social protection,
  safety nets and food security

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• Our governments need to collect, compile and
  analyze all data with gender dis-aggregation,
  especially poverty data.
• Violence against women requires
• Strong legislation,
• Strict law enforcement,
• Access to justice,
• Public awareness through all media.

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• Our governments need to increase respect for
  daughters and to decrease son preference by
• Providing incentives for girls education,
• Old age pensions and social security,
• Awareness for removing male disapproval of
  womens waged employment.