DUBAI: Promotion of the values of human fraternity must extend to the empowerment of women, according to Epsy Campbell Barr, a former vice president of Costa Rica and member of the judging panel for this year’s Zayed Award for Human Fraternity. “We need more understanding between the sexes in order to build a better world,” she told Arab News in the lead-up to this year’s
The American Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Lebanese businessmen and their companies for helping to fund Hezbollah. Hezbollah regards the results of the elections in Lebanon as a success Hezbollah’s civilian institutions marked “Resistance” and Liberation with a series of events. Palestinians in Lebanon and Syria marked Nakba Day.
Gbowee was recognised for her non-violent peace movement under her Women of Liberian Mass Action for Peace, which helped bring to end the second Liberian civil war in 2003.
Gbowee was recognised for her non-violent peace movement under her Women of Liberian Mass Action for Peace, which helped bring to end the second Liberian civil war in 2003.