The conferences introduced in combination ministers and officers answerable for females’s affairs from BRICS member states to talk about the draft BRICS Joint Ministerial Observation
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates, represented by way of the UAE Gender Steadiness Council, participated within the BRICS Girls Operating Workforce Assembly and BRICS Girls Ministerial Assembly, held from 6 to 9 July 2026 in Kochi, Kerala, Republic of India, as a part of the Republic of India’s Presidency of BRICS for 2026.
The participation displays the UAE’s dedication to contributing to the advance of sensible results that support global cooperation and assist insurance policies and projects geared toward attaining women-led sustainable building.
The conferences introduced in combination ministers and officers answerable for females’s affairs from BRICS member states to talk about the draft BRICS Joint Ministerial Observation, along 4 key precedence spaces: management and governance, monetary and virtual inclusion, entrepreneurship and abilities building, and local weather motion, meals safety and diet.
Those discussions have been held throughout the framework of the priorities followed by way of India all through its BRICS Presidency to support the function of girls in sustainable building, the financial system and innovation, potential constructing, and global cooperation throughout the change of very best practices.
In this instance, H.H. Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the UAE Gender Steadiness Council and spouse of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Top Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court docket, affirmed that the United Arab Emirates regards gender steadiness as a elementary pillar for attaining sustainable building and embellishing the competitiveness of countries.
H.H. famous that making an investment in females is an funding at some point of societies and in constructing extra cutting edge economies and extra resilient establishments able to addressing long term demanding situations.
She additionally recommended the efforts made by way of the Republic of India all through its Presidency of the BRICS Girls’s Monitor, which contributed to strengthening positive discussion, bettering coordination amongst member states, and creating sensible results that reply to shared building priorities.
H.H. mentioned: “The United Arab Emirates believes that international partnerships, constructive dialogue and the exchange of expertise are essential elements for accelerating progress and translating commitments into practical and sustainable outcomes. From this perspective, the UAE continues to work with its partners within BRICS and around the world to translate shared outcomes into policies, partnerships and practical initiatives that expand opportunities for women and strengthen their role in sustainable development.”
All the way through the Ministerial Assembly, the United Arab Emirates reaffirmed that gender steadiness is a elementary pillar for attaining sustainable building and strengthening the aptitude of societies and economies to handle demanding situations, noting that constructing sturdy establishments and supportive environments bureaucracy the basis for making sure females’s complete and efficient participation in financial and social existence, in addition to in decision-making.
The UAE additionally offered its nationwide revel in in advancing gender steadiness thru an built-in framework of insurance policies, law and nationwide methods, maximum particularly We the UAE 2031, the Nationwide Coverage for Empowerment of Emirati Girls 2023-2031, and the UAE Gender Steadiness Technique 2027-2031. The rustic additionally highlighted its achievements in management, international relations, entrepreneurship, virtual transformation, synthetic intelligence and local weather motion, that have reinforced its regional and global status.
Those achievements are mirrored within the UAE rating first amongst Arab nations within the World Gender Hole File 2025, and primary domestically within the Gender Inequality Index issued by way of the United International locations Building Programme (UNDP).
The UAE additionally showcased its pioneering nationwide projects, major amongst them the SDG 5 Pledge, in which 88 non-public sector firms have dedicated to expanding the illustration of girls in center and senior control positions to 30% by way of 2028, along family-support projects, capacity-building programmes in generation and synthetic intelligence, and projects to make stronger females’s participation in local weather motion.
Mona Ghanem Al Marri, Vice President of the UAE Gender Steadiness Council, mentioned: “The BRICS Women’s Track represents a strategic platform for strengthening international dialogue, building partnerships, and exchanging expertise, thereby supporting the development of more inclusive and sustainable policies and reinforcing women’s role as a key partner in achieving economic growth and sustainable development. The United Arab Emirates believes that international cooperation is a vital pillar for accelerating progress and transforming shared ambitions into initiatives that deliver tangible impact.”
The United Arab Emirates participated in discussions at the draft BRICS Joint Ministerial Observation, in addition to the BRICS Pointers for Construction Girls’s Virtual Capability and the Shared Virtual Library of Best possible Practices, which goal to assist the change of experience, support potential constructing, and expand sensible answers that reply to the priorities of member states.
Mouza Al Ghuwais Al Suwaidi, Secretary Normal of the UAE Gender Steadiness Council, affirmed that the UAE’s participation within the endeavours of BRICS displays its way of reworking global discussion into sensible projects and partnerships that give a contribution to creating insurance policies that assist gender steadiness and ladies’s empowerment.
She mentioned: “We look forward to building on the outcomes of this meeting by expanding partnerships, exchanging expertise, and working with our partners to transform our shared vision into initiatives and policies that deliver sustainable impact, strengthen women’s participation across various sectors, and support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.”
At the sidelines of the Ministerial Assembly, the UAE delegation held bilateral conferences with Annapurna Devi, Union Minister for Girls and Kid Building, Govt of India; Márcia Lopes, Minister of Girls of the Federative Republic of Brazil; and Olga Batalina, First Deputy Labour and Social Coverage Minister of the Russian Federation.
The conferences explored alternatives to support cooperation in boosting females’s financial empowerment, entrepreneurship, the virtual financial system, talents building, and local weather motion and care insurance policies, along with sharing very best practices in creating insurance policies and law that assist gender steadiness.
The United Arab Emirates welcomed the adoption of the Joint Ministerial Observation and the instructions and results it emphasises to support global cooperation and assist the advance of insurance policies and projects geared toward increasing females’s participation in sustainable financial and social building. The UAE reaffirmed its dedication to proceed operating with member states to translate those results into sensible projects and partnerships that ship tangible have an effect on.
Concluding its participation, the United Arab Emirates reiterated its eagerness to additional solidify cooperation with BRICS member states and global companions to advertise wisdom change and assist joint projects that advance gender steadiness, empower females, and give a contribution to constructing a extra sustainable and filthy rich long term for all.
