Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Intn'l Conference - Gender Equality - Opening Ceremony


We were invited to attend the opening ceremony  of the International Conference "Ensuring the centrality of gender equality and women's empowerment - post 2015 " in Haifa this week. 

There is much talk about the lack of recognition of Israel in the corridors of the UN, yet this conference showed how much support Israel has. The conference is sponsored by MASHAV, Israel's agency for international development in conjunction with UN Women and UNDP (development progress).

In addition 4 other UN agencies were present and representatives from 33 countries. It was inspiring.


The entrance to the ceremony wit flags of participating countries.


Awaiting the arrival of the diplomatic delegations

Sierra Leone's representative

The Diplomats arrive

The Druze community is represented, of course

The official invitation

Mazal Renford, MASHAV's director

Entertainment provided by Bat-Shir Choir
of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra


Keynote address by Dr Babatunde Osotimehin
Executive Director, UN Population Fund UNFPA





1 comment:

Michael Ganoe said...

It's pretty disgusting how so many Israeli's play up to these various U.N. entities that play the hypocrite and full of corruption.

Let them have their "gender equality" conference in muslim countries and see how that plays out.

The disgusting part is that next they will be shoving the homos deviancy and corruption even farther down the throat of the good, decent, moral, and God fearing people of this country.