The UAE’s ambassador to the UN described new opportunities for Middle Eastern women after this year’s UAE-Bahrain-Israel normalisation deals at one of the first joint events between the three governments.
UAE envoy Lana Nusseibeh spoke about women diplomats in one of the first formal joint events with officials from Israel, Bahrain and the Emirates since the Abraham Accord was signed in Washington in September.
“The UAE and Israel are champions of gender equality in our region,” said Ms Nusseibeh, according to a statement from Israel’s UN mission.
“We believe that the peace agreement between our two countries is already beginning to foster partnerships that will unlock enormous opportunities for women in the region.”
The event featured Israel’s envoy to Geneva Meirav Eilon Shahar, Bahrain’s former US ambassador Houda Nonoo and other women diplomats, who exchanged views on getting ahead in a male-dominated sector.
The virtual meeting marked 20 years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which stressed the importance of women playing important roles in peace talks and blue-helmet deployments.
“It is essential that women are included on every level of decision-making because a world with gender equality is a better world for all its inhabitants,” Israel’s UN envoy Erdan Gilad said in the statement.
The UAE, Bahrain and Israel agreed to normalise ties in September in a deal that delayed the planned Israeli annexation of Palestinian land and opened the door to business, travel and security co-operation.
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Five famous companies founded by teens
There are numerous success stories of teen businesses that were created in college dorm rooms and other modest circumstances. Below are some of the most recognisable names in the industry:
- Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg and his friends started Facebook when he was a 19-year-old Harvard undergraduate.
- Dell: When Michael Dell was an undergraduate student at Texas University in 1984, he started upgrading computers for profit. He starting working full-time on his business when he was 19. Eventually, his company became the Dell Computer Corporation and then Dell Inc.
- Subway: Fred DeLuca opened the first Subway restaurant when he was 17. In 1965, Mr DeLuca needed extra money for college, so he decided to open his own business. Peter Buck, a family friend, lent him $1,000 and together, they opened Pete’s Super Submarines. A few years later, the company was rebranded and called Subway.
- Mashable: In 2005, Pete Cashmore created Mashable in Scotland when he was a teenager. The site was then a technology blog. Over the next few decades, Mr Cashmore has turned Mashable into a global media company.
- Oculus VR: Palmer Luckey founded Oculus VR in June 2012, when he was 19. In August that year, Oculus launched its Kickstarter campaign and raised more than $1 million in three days. Facebook bought Oculus for $2 billion two years later.
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Points about the fast fashion industry Celine Hajjar wants everyone to know
- Fast fashion is responsible for up to 10 per cent of global carbon emissions
- Fast fashion is responsible for 24 per cent of the world's insecticides
- Synthetic fibres that make up the average garment can take hundreds of years to biodegrade
- Fast fashion labour workers make 80 per cent less than the required salary to live
- 27 million fast fashion workers worldwide suffer from work-related illnesses and diseases
- Hundreds of thousands of fast fashion labourers work without rights or protection and 80 per cent of them are women
