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Vol.1 Issue 63 January 2024Vol.1 Issue 63, May 2024 ElITE
There’s no women empowerment and For these countries, they have suffered
closing the gender gap without a sincere the loss of a great number of men in
investment of political will. In this year’s WW1 and WW2, so employing women
CSW, through interacting with the other became a necessity to rebuild their
activists and attendees, miss. Yasmin got economies. Aside from that, can
the chance to observe closely the women’s movements thrive when there
diversity of levels of political will isn’t sufficient political will tinvested in
invested by different countries and the the cause from the top ?That is the case
factors affecting it. From one for Latin America, the region who
perspective, the political will invested by succeeded in introducing numerous best
each country is highly affected by its practices in advancing the cause despite
leader; in some countries, if women’s their history of colonization and
rights and demands are violated or authoritarian regimes. Based on our
ignored in any sort of way, the image of conversation with miss. Yasmin, Latin
their leaders would instantly be shook American countries and NGOs are
and political instability becomes a distinguished by their ability to actively
possible risk, henceforth, in such cooperate with the west while
contexts, the cause of empowering maintaining their economic and political
women and ensuring gender equality independence. Unlike us as Arabs, this
comes at the top of their political goes back to their ability to fight
agenda. Furthermore, regional and collectively for and stand together
international pressures also serve as a behind <a single unified agenda for the
key factor in shaping the depth of the empowerment of women= creating a real
political will invested in each country’s movement instead of a bunch of
national plan for empowering women. disorganized waves of activities. In
From another perspective, miss. Yasmin addition, Latin American activists
brought our attention to how the cause concerned with empowering women,
of empowering women was mainly appear to relatively enjoy freedom of
discussed from an economic perspective movement in their countries, which they
amongst the European states and the were able to utilize in building an active
United States, as they focused mainly on women’s movement, in the sense of being
women’s role in boosting the economy. able to initiate certain activities on the
ground and not only on social media.
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