Morocco Assumes Presidency of the Supreme Council of the Arab Women Organization
On Tuesday, Morocco took over the presidency of the Supreme Council of the Arab Women Organization, a body affiliated with the Arab League, represented by Naima Ibn Yahya, Minister of Solidarity, Integration, and Social Family Affairs.
This transition occurred during the closing session of the tenth General Conference of the Arab Women Organization, which was organized over two days under the theme “Communication, Empowerment, and Protection for Women and Girls Against Cyber Violence and Violence Resulting from Technology and Artificial Intelligence.”
In her speech during the handover of the presidency from the Arab Republic of Egypt, Minister Ibn Yahya expressed her pride in Morocco’s leadership of the Supreme Council for the upcoming term, highlighting the success of the tenth General Conference in terms of its subject matter and the recommendations issued.
Ibn Yahya affirmed the continuation of the same approach previously followed by the Arab Women Organization to achieve its goals.
The final session of the conference featured the launch of a training guide prepared by the organization on the methodology for preparing national reports submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), as well as the announcement of the opening of nominations for the Arab Women Organization award “Arab Girl and Technology for the year 2025.”
The conference saw the organization of six working sessions in which 26 experts from Arab countries presented scientific papers addressing the issue of cyber violence against women and girls and strategies to combat it from various perspectives, including fundamental concepts, legislative frameworks, national and international experiences, and the use of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity techniques to protect women.
The conference also aimed to identify all forms of crimes directed at women and girls using information technology, including current, emerging, and future scenarios of such crimes, striving to reach a consensus on a unified general term that encompasses all manifestations of these practices and crimes. Additionally, it encouraged the development of legislative and legal frameworks at the national levels of member states to mitigate this phenomenon, guided by the legislation of comparable countries as well as international and regional agreements and charters. Recommendations were issued concerning the development of policies, strategies, and mechanisms for implementing laws based on lessons learned from leading international experiences and disseminating them for other countries to follow.
Alongside the member states of the Arab Women Organization, the tenth General Conference was attended by members of the organization’s advisory committees, several experts, and representatives from international and regional organizations with shared interests.
