First Lady chairs a forum on “Arab women in the global communication landscape”
Tunis, March 24, 2008 (TunisiaOnline)--A forum on "Arab Women in the global communication space" is to be held on March 25-26, 2008 in Tunis, under the high patronage of First Lady, Mrs. Leila Ben Ali who is expected to give an opening address to the forum.
The event which is jointly organised by the Ministry of women's affairs, family, children and the elderly, the Arab Women's Organization (AWO) and the Arab Organisation for Communication Technologies on the initiative of the First Lady, will focus on the following concepts :
- Women in the Global Communication Space: Concepts, Dimensions and Challenges,
- Arab women in the global Communication Space: Social Gender Approach,
- Global Communication Space: Opportunity to Promote Arab Women's Conditions,
- Arab Women in the Global Communication Space: Future Vision.
Mrs Ben Ali's initiative which was unanimously adopted by AWO' s Higher Council also falls in line with the Head of State's call, during the 2004 Tunis Arab Summit, and underscores the need to consider Arab Women's rights as a corner stone of any modernisation process of Arab societies.
Several representatives of governments, associations, research and study centres and international information institutions, as well as experts in social gender and communication fields, will take part in the event.
The forum will also focus on the changes and challenges posed by modern ICT's on the new modes of thinking they disseminate, especially in the context of the traditions of Arab societies and values.
It will also look at means to protect younger generations against the phenomena of acculturation, extremism and fanaticism, as well as at women's contribution in the building of a balanced, interdependent and solidarity- based society.
The forum also stresses the importance of the implementation of item 23 of the “Tunis commitment” issued from the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which highlights the recognition by the countries attending the Summit that the digital divide between developed and developing countries has been further widened by the gap dividing men and women within the same society and calls for the bridging of the gender divide.
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