HRH Princess Sabeeka award jury announced

Manama : The international jury for the Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa Global Award for Women Empowerment will be headed by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the United Nations Undersecretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women. 

From 2005 to 2008, she served as Deputy President of South Africa, overseeing programmes to combat poverty and bring the advantages of a growing economy to the poor, with a particular focus on women. 

The jury includes Helen Elizabeth Clark, a politician who served as the Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008,  Shaikha Haya bint Rashid Al Khalifa who was President of the 61th United Nations General Assembly in 2006-2007, Marike Paulsson, the Director of the International Arbitration Institute at the University of Miami and Lecturer in Law, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, the current Ambassador of Brazil to Italy and former Minister of External Relations, Professor Mustafa Al Faqim, the director of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Mohammed Naciri, the regional director for the Arab States for the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). 

The jury will soon start scrutinising the applications for the award ahead of announcing the laureates who will be honoured at a high-level ceremony.

The Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa Global Award for Women Empowerment aims to demonstrate the importance of the commitment by states, entities and organizations through their legislative, executive, public and private agencies and civil society to the policy of non-discrimination against women and to equal opportunities for women and men at all levels.