Parliamentarians role vital to achieving gender equality, green economy goals: PM’s climate Aide Romina Khurshid
Coordinator to Prime Minister on Climate Change & Environmental Coordination, Romina Khurshid Alam said that gender equality and the empowerment of women are vital to addressing the world’s unprecedented intertwined global crises from food insecurity and climate change to conflict, fragility, and violence, to sluggish economic growth.
While addressing a curtain-raiser press conference here on Friday regarding a two-day meeting of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (APFFD) on ‘Gender Empowerment and Green Economy’ starting from Monday, she highlighted the role of parliamentarians in advancing both gender empowerment and a green economy crucial in achieving women’s socio-economic empowerment and gender equality in all spheres of society for achieving sus...