安瓦尔·艾勒阿卜杜拉

妇女在社会发展进程中发挥着至关重要的作用

巴林前驻华大使  安瓦尔·艾勒阿卜杜拉 博士

Dr.Anwar Alabdulla,Former Ambassador of  the Kingdom of Bahrain to China

首届亚非女性发展与合作论坛讯   2021年12月30日下午，亚非妇女发展与权益保障促进会在北京成功举办首届亚非女性发展与合作论坛和亚非女性共庆新年招待会。中共中央对外联络部原副部长于洪君、亚非地区驻华使节、国际机构驻华代表、专家学者、国内外媒体等中外嘉宾150余人应邀出席。论坛期间，举办了以“助力她健康”为主题的圆桌会议。

巴林前驻华大使安瓦尔·艾勒阿卜杜拉博士发表视频讲话：《妇女在社会发展进程中发挥着至关重要的作用》。

讲话全文如下：

女士们，先生们，

我很荣幸，对我来说在我们的第一次亚非女性发展与合作论坛中，跟大家分享我的观点。

我想向主办方亚非妇促会，祝贺她们所取得的成就，我们向这些促进世界各地妇女事业和可持续发展而不懈努力的人们，表示中心的祝贺！在我们所有的努力中，我们能够意识到女性在可持续发展中所做的努力，我们受到了领导人的远见卓识、创造力、不懈努力、工作成就的鼓舞，那就是我们的主办方（WEDS.AA）创始人兼会长赵美玲女士，她给予我们的远见卓识，让我们深受鼓舞。我想我们的论坛就达成了此次的目的。

在2007年5月，在北京举行的“一带一路”论坛上，人们希望创造的是一个和谐共处的大家庭，其中这句话的关键词就是“家庭”，家庭会让人联想到母亲父亲，兄弟和姐妹的形象，如果用隐喻的方式来形容的话，将家庭群体投射到国际社会当中，这些群体会团结在一起从而实现亚洲、非洲和世界的和平、和谐、社会正义以及经济发展。

本次论坛传递了一个强有力的信息，这个信息被全世界所聆听，那就是：妇女在发展进程中发挥着至关重要的作用。但是我们必须对自己和彼此坦诚，我们需要认识到妇女在每个社会中都需要继续面临斗争，在发展过程中实现她们应得的尊重、赋权和机会，这是她们应得的。传统的性别角色和彼此的期望，可以加剧女性被排除在重要参与发展之外的情形，并形成破坏真正成功的因素，一个实际案例就是在一些欠发达国家收集和提供饮用水或者说自给自足的农业，可被界定为“妇女的责任”，可以减少妇女和女童在教育、就业和社会发展方面的时间。

发展主义者现在承认，倡导更大的性别平等并不能充分解决真正的结构性问题，可持续性发展的概念已经扎根，他涉及到不仅仅是发展和获得物质、经济和技术资源，它还涉及发展和获得物质，经济和技术资源以及对环境的尊重。

尊敬的各位来宾们，

可持续发展取得成功的证据是巨大的，关于妇女在可持续发展中的重要作用，最广泛的参考研究是来自世界银行的“将性别观点纳入主流战略。”这项研究突出表明与平等对待男女的社会相比，按性别歧视的社会，往往经历了较快的经济增长和减贫速度，社会性别差异造成的经济效率低下的结果。这样的社会差异导致经济效率低下（世界银行2001）。如果说没有教育，科学和通讯，我们就无法理解和解决问题，没有创新和技术，现代经济就无法实现长期增长，没有女性的参与，我们至少会失去一半的愿景，我们会失去创造力，失去完成伟大事业的资源。

在国际层面上，本着“一带一路”新经济愿景的精神，让我们鼓励亚非在科学、教育、工作和休闲方面的文化交流与合作，促进多领域的交流互通：这样的合作会使我们人性化，并且鼓励我们之间相互连有效地解决效的解决共同问题、共同挑战。

我希望呼吁大家采取行动，我鼓励所有驻中国大使馆与世界妇女理事会以及亚非妇促会，能够携手合作，在亚洲和非洲和世界各地，为社会和可持续发展中的妇女赋权，在亚洲、非洲和世界各个角落，让我们受到全球村的概念启发，在个人、家庭、社区层面，在国家层面和区域层面能够处理每一个层级存在的问题，而每个层级取得的成就都能够有助于建立崭新的更具包容性的，更公正以及更持续的，更公平的经济秩序。

祝大家一切顺利，并期待在座的各位取得成就。

真主保佑你们！

谢谢！

Women Lead the Way to Sustainable Development

First Asia-African Women’s Development and Cooperation Forum

By Dr. Anwar Alabdulla

Former Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to China

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is an honour and a privilege for me to address and share my thoughts with all of you at the First Asia-African Women’s Development and Cooperation Forum. I wish to congratulate heartily the organizers – the Women’s Empowerment and Development Society in Asia and Africa (WEDS-AA) – as well as the countless people who work tirelessly to promote the women’s cause and sustainable development in all corners of the world. In all of our efforts in promoting and recognizing women’s vital role in sustainable development, we are inspired by the vision, creativity, hard work, accomplishments and guidance of Ms. Meiling Zhao, the founder and President of WEDS-AA. This forum is a tribute to her.

In May 2017 at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, Chinese Presidentoutlined his vision of a new economic order and affirmed that: “What we hope to create is a big family of harmonious co-existence.” The key, operative word in this sentence is “family”, conjuring up images of mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and, metaphorically, extended familial groups projected into the international community that is bound together to achieve peace, harmony, social justice and economic development in Asia, Africa and the world.

This forum has a powerful message that needs to be heard worldwide: women have a vital role in the development process. However, we must be honest with ourselves, and each other, and recognize that women continue to face a struggle in virtually every society to achieve the respect, the empowerment and opportunities that they deserve in the development process. Traditional gender roles and expectations can reinforce women’s exclusion from important participation in development and undermine real success. As a practical example, in some less developed countries, the collection and provision of water or subsistence farming may be defined as “female responsibilities” that could reduce the amount of time that women and girls would have for education, employment and social development.

Developmentalists now acknowledge that advocacy for greater gender equality does not fully tackle the real structural problem. The concept of “sustainable development” has taken hold: it involves more than the development and access to physical, economic and technological resources; human-centred development promotes social and cultural norms and respect for the environment.

The evidence of the success of the sustainable development approach is substantial. The most widely referenced research on the importance of women in sustainable development has come from the World Bank’s ‘Gender Mainstreaming Strategy’. This research highlighted that societies that discriminate by gender tend to experience less rapid economic growth and poverty reduction than societies that treat males and females more equally, and that social gender disparities produce economically inefficient outcomes (World Bank 2001). Without education, science and communications, we cannot understand and solve problems; without innovation and technology, modern economies cannot achieve long term growth. Without women’s participation we lose at least half of our vision, creativity and resources to accomplish great things.

On an international level – and in the spirit of the new economic vision of the OBOR – let us encourage Asia-African cultural exchanges and cooperation in science, education, work and leisure: this cooperation humanizes us, encourages mutual understanding, and empowers us to solve common problems more efficiently.

I wish to conclude with a call to action. All embassies in the PRC are encouraged to join hands with the WEDS-AA to embrace the empowerment of women in society and sustainable development, in Asia, Africa and everywhere. Let us be inspired by the global village concept and tackle problems at the individual, family, community, national and regional levels; each individual accomplishment contributes to the building of nodes and networks of a new, more inclusive, more just, and more sustainable economic order.

I wish you all the very best and look forward to your achievements.

God bless you all.

Thank you.

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