Bassant Mereika founded and is the CEO of MW-N company, which provides contracting services to design, supply, install, operate, and maintain top quality Egyptian water alternative resources systems in buildings and landscape. Bassant Mereika’s project aims at raising awareness about rationalizing water consumption. Bassant is one of the women entrepreneurs who participated in the trainings and services provided by the UN Women/UNIDO Joint Programme “Rabeha” which means “She Wins” in Arabic. This programme is implemented in partnership with the National Council for Women, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise Development Agency Microscopy (MSMEDA), with the generous support of the Government of Canada.

Ms. Rania Fathy, Environmental and Sustainable Development Consultant and Founder of Dr. Earth, holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences and currently works in the field of environmental, sustainable development. Rania discovered her passion in this field when she was in high school as when participating in conducting research with the Academy of Scientific Research, often focusing on desertification and environmental pollution.

The Financial Regulatory Authority and UN Women Egypt organized two seminars on “Gender Equality and Enhancing the Work Environment” on the 22nd and 26th of June 2022 in the presence of Mr. Hisham Ramadan, Assistant Chairman of the Financial Regulatory Authority and Ms. Gielan ElMessiri; Deputy Country Representative, UN Women Egypt.

The COVID-19 pandemic affects everyone, everywhere. But it affects different groups of people differently, deepening existing inequalities. Today we are launching a report that shows how COVID-19 could reverse the limited progress that has been made on gender equality and women’s rights – and recommends ways to put women’s leadership and contributions at the heart of resilience and recovery.

At the beginning of this week, the United Nations Secretary-General issued an appeal to stop violence everywhere including violence in the home. As Directors of the four United Nations Agencies who have been working together to highlight the importance of Gender Justice and Equality before the law1 as a clear path towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, we call upon states in the Arab states region to respond to the Secretary-General’s appeal.

In the framework of the European Union’s (EU) Cooperation with Egypt, the closing ceremony of the EU funded ‘Securing Rights and Improving Livelihood of Women’ was held by UN Women in the presence of Her Excellency Dr. Maya Morsy, President of the National Council for Women (NCW); Mr. Jean Barbé, Head of Human Rights, Civil Society, and Governance Section, EU Delegation to Egypt; and Mr. Jorg Schimmel, UN Women Country Director a.i.