RIYADH: Princess Adelah bint Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, head of the National Family Safety Program, attended the seventh national experts’ meeting organized by the National Family Safety Program at the Ministry of National Guard in the presence of Minister of Labor and Social Development Ali bin Nasser Ghafis.
The event was held at the King Saud bin Abdul Aziz Center for Health Sciences in Riyadh under the title “Empowering Women Is Empowerment Society.”
The executive director of the National Family Safety Program, Dr. Maha Al-Maneef, stressed that the meeting focused on violence against women.
She said that this “emanates from the belief of our leaders in the importance of caring for women and their issues, and enabling them to obtain all their rights to contribute effectively to the development process in society, and moreover, to provide access to women for administrative and leadership posts and then in the field of scholarship, diplomatic work, engineering, law, to run and vote in municipal councils and to be a member in the Shoura Council.”
In her speech, Princess Adelah referred to the previous six meetings that witnessed consultations on a number of issues related to domestic violence and combating it, in addition to promoting values and principles for building stable families and a society based on justice and balance.
She stressed the keenness of the program to “open the issue of empowerment of women through rehabilitation programs.” She highlighted the results of recent studies on violence against women and the program to support and develop women to raise their psychological, social and economic levels.
Minister Ghafis also discussed the decision of the Council of Ministers to establish the Family Affairs Council, which comprises representatives from 10 ministries, family members, and experts on women, children and the elderly.
The meeting concluded with recommendations that highlight successful leadership models in various fields; aim to find a mechanism to follow up and monitor the enforcement of legislation on women’s rights in various sectors; hold offenders accountable; take care of women’s empowerment programs as a means to prevent domestic violence; and rehabilitate women suffering violence.
