Time Has Come to Empower Women the World Over

Empowering women to take on a leadership role and become involved in decision-making processes has a very deep significance for women in emerging countries as well as developed countries.  This was pointed out by the President of the Associated Country-Women of the World, or ACWW, Hilda Stewart at the 7th Area Conference of the ACWW for Southeast and Far East Asia, which is being held at the International Convention Centre in the capital.

The ACWW, she added, holds regional training workshops on leadership skills and organizational management for its members, in the hopes that the knowledge gained from these workshops will be passed on to the grassroots level.  According to the President of the organization, poverty and world hunger still persist despite the robust global economy of the 21st century.  It is the responsibility of women’s organizations at all levels to help resolve these issues and make everyone aware that poverty and global hunger impinges on all development efforts, whether they are government led or NGO led.