Saudi Arabia reaffirms commitment to women empowerment

Saudi Arabia reaffirms commitment to women empowerment

NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia has affirmed its commitment to achieve real and effective empowerment of women and to enable them to perform their role in building the Kingdom alongside their male counterparts without any discrimination.

The remarks came during a speech delivered Mohammed Al-Ateeq, acting charge d'affaires at Saudi Arabia’s permanent delegation to the UN, at the annual meeting of the Executive Council of the United Nations Women and Gender Equality.

He said that the Kingdom has appreciated the report that was issued on the implementation of the strategic plan 2018-2021, which many governments have aligned in line with their directions in order to achieve the goals of empowering women.

In the past few years, Saudi Arabia has made several reforms in the field of human rights, but the one area that has received the greatest attention was women's rights.

The Kingdom has issued many new laws or amended existing laws, regulations and legal bases, through which it ensured the enhancement of women's rights and empowerment on an equal basis with their male counterparts. The most prominent of these laws are: the civil status law, the labor law, the social insurance law, the traffic law (Muroor) and the travel document law.

Al-Ateeq indicated that