The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan,
will participate at the High Level Forum for First Ladies at the 68th
session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event, with
the theme ``Building Bridges for Peace on Health Disability: Post 2015
Sustainable Development Agenda Initiative'', is scheduled for Sept. 24.
She is expected to deliver a speech at the
opening of the workshop session, while Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation on
the African First Ladies Fellowship Programme, Nicole Brzeski, will chair the
workshop.
The session will address various creative strategies in
addressing and overcoming peace challenges on various forms of women’s health
and wellbeing.
Dr Ada Okika, the Secretary-General, U.S. Federation of UNESCO
Clubs, Centres and Associations New York State Chapter, told NAN that the time
had come for realistic understanding of the significance of a
transformative agenda to build peace among nations.
`` Peace is directly related to poverty eradication, health care
and improvement, good governance, leadership, social and economic emancipation
and sustainability.
``Throughout its history, there have been global experiences on
a wide range of conflicts, violence and other numerous challenges.
``These challenges must be addressed in order to promote human
development, revitalise infrastructure and establish sustainable peace in
working towards the future that the world want.’’
She said that people throughout the world desired peace and
good health, adding that women in particular had unique capacities to promote
the peace and achieve positive health.
`` For this reason, we propose to convene First Ladies Forum
from all UN Member States.
``The forum can serve as active agent for peace, building
bridges on women’s health disability and child marriage, and meeting the
challenges for sustainable peace and development of nations.’’ (NAN)
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