Bahrain Supreme Council For Women plays important role in Sustainable Development

Women are half of the society and their role is not less important than the role of men, however their role was undermined. Women remained working silently for many years with no rewards and violation of their rights legislated by Allah Almighty and the Almighty primarily and civil rights secondarily. 

The commencement of hope for women was and is to this day is the general approval by the General Assembly of Declaration on Elimination of Discrimination against Women in its resolution (2263-D 22) dated November 7, 1967.

Nonetheless Prior attempts to advocate women’s rights such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 10, 1948, where there was no differentiation between women and men in a clear signal against discrimination through the usage of the word (per person). 

However, women in the international community needed solid agreement to ensure her rights, which was the proclamation by the General Assembly in resolution (3010- d 27) of 18 December 1972. 

The year 1975 is the International Women’s Year as announced after the Declaration Conference (Mexico) on the equality of women and their contribution to development and peace. Among the most prominent conferences held by the United Nations at the time was the World Conference on women’s rights (equality, development and peace), which was held in (Koppen Halkin ) from 14 to July 30, 1980 , where a  program to help achieve the three goals of equality, development and peace, with particular emphasis on sub-themes  of labour, health and education as an important component of development, bearing in mind that human resources can not reach its full potential without social and economic development.

Concurrently with the international situation, the Bahraini women enjoy greater share of the government’s attention in the kingdom, through the tireless efforts of the government for the sake of women’s development and preservation of their rights, whilst effort to involve them in all the rights that were previously considered preserved to men. That trip began since the issuance of the Amiri Order No. (44) of 2001 establishing the Supreme Council for Women and to clarify the terms of reference which were represented in eleven jurisdiction:

Create a council that deals exclusively with matters of women and not only work on development in all areas, but insure their participation in all fields and in the Bahraini civil society. To be a partner to the man and complement him in building and community development under the direct, sustained and intense follow up by Her Royal Highness Princess Sabika bint Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Wife of His highness King Hamad AlKhalifa ,and Chairwoman of the Supreme Council for women. In accordance and the respect of the Supreme Council for women with the provisions of Article (3) of the Amiri order No. (44) for the year 2001 stating the following:

1-A general political proposal in the field of the development of women’s affairs in the constitutional and civil society institutions.

2-enabling women to play their role in public life and to integrate their efforts in comprehensive development programs, taking into account non-discrimination.

3. draft a national plan for the advancement of women and to solve the problems faced in all fields.

4. implementation of the principles contained in the National Action Charter with regard to women and the development of appropriate mechanisms for that

5-. Follow-up and evaluation of the employment of public policy in the field of women’s progress and what shall be the Council of the proposals and observations to the competent authorities in this regard.

6-submission of proposals to amend the current legislation relating to women and to express an opinion on laws and decisions related to her prior to their submission to the competent authority and recommend draft laws necessary for the advancement of the status of women and decisions.

7. Bahraini women’s representation in forums and in Arab or international organizations concerned with women’s issues.

8. To establish a documentation center for the collection of information, data, studies and research on women and conduct research and studies in this area.

9. conferences, seminars and panel discussions held to discuss women’s issues

10. community awareness of the role of women and their rights and duties through the use of appropriate mechanisms.

11. bulletins and magazines print and electronic materials related to the Council’s objectives and terms of reference version.

And it shows the effectiveness of the Supreme Council for Women in Bahrain in women Development in general and sustainable development through the program, goals and brochures on the development of Bahraini women in all areas. Since 2011 until today the Supreme Council for Women made great efforts for the sake of Bahraini women’s development, it held many workshops and training for awareness of women’s rights.

The Supreme Council for the active role in the Kingdom’s accession to many international women’s affairs agreements, as was the Council’s prominent support in the establishment of women’s conferences in all economic, social, cultural and legal fields, add to that the allocation of the Supreme Council for Women in each year a special theme meant to highlight the role of women in a particular field, such as the role of women in the economic sphere  last year, and women in the legal field in this year.