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Nawal Mostafa is the Princess Sabeeka Bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa Individual Championship award winner. She is the founder of "New Life" initiative, which aims to support female prisoners and their children. The initiative also provides training and employment opportunities for these women, so they can earn a living and support themselves and their families.
My name is Vivian Ninsiima, and I’m a Gender and Advocacy Manager at Rukungiri Women Integrated Development Foundation (RWIDF). At RWIDF, we aim to enhance and transform the marginalized lives of women and girls, youth and adults.
My name is Tunde Adeyemi, and I am the CEO and one of the co-founders of D-Olivette Global Enterprise, a company that is working to address the issue of energy poverty in rural Africa.
وكيلة الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة والمديرة التنفيذية لهيئة الأمم المتحدة للمرأة في حفل توزيع جائزة الأميرة سبيكة بنت إبراهيم آل خليفة العالمية لتمكين المرأة للدورة الثانية ضمن احتفالات يوم المرأة البحرينية 2022
Under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka Bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa Wife of His Majesty the King of Bahrain President of the Supreme Council for Women, UN Women Executive Director Dr. Sima Bahous spoke at the ceremony to celebrate Bahraini Women’s Day, held at the new Athar monument site on 30 November 2022.
The deadline to apply for the Princess Sabeeka Bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa Global Award for Women’s Empowerment has been extended to 31st May 2022. Organized by UN Women in partnership with the Supreme Council for Women of the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Award recognizes the work of governments, the private sector, civil society organizations, and individual champions towards empowering women and girls worldwide.
On 11 March 2019, the winners of the Princess Sabeeka Bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa Global Award for Women's Empowerment were celebrated at a side-event convened during the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York. The award highlights innovative initiatives that bring about sustainable transformation for women's empowerment within their communities. Each winner will receive USD 100,000 to put towards promoting women’s empowerment.
Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, wife of HM the King and President of the Supreme Council of Women (SCW), has stressed that Her Highness’s #Global #Award carries the Kingdom's message to the international community noting that women's affairs is a distinguished development issue. Her Royal Highness also reaffirmed her full commitments in supporting global policies to accelerate the pace of women's progress in keeping with the...
During the 16 Days of Activism, Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka undertook her first visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain. She inaugurated a UN Women programme office in the UN House. The programme office will work with the UN Country Team in Bahrain, the Bahraini Government, in addition to the Supreme Council for Women [the equivalent of Women’s Ministry], and other partners on advancing women´s empowerment.
UN Women has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bahraini Supreme Council for Women Sunday for coordination and preparation for a new global award for the empowerment of women. The signing ceremony was held in Bahrain Sunday and was attended by Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka Bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, the President of the Bahraini Supreme Council for Women, Yannick Glemarec, UN Women Deputy Executive Director and Mohammad Naciri, UN Women Regional Director for Arab States.
The Princess Sabeeka Bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa Global Award for Women’s Empowerment organized by UN Women in partnership with the Supreme Council for Women of the Kingdom of Bahrain recognizes the work of governments, the private sector, civil society organizations, and individual champions towards empowering women and girls worldwide.