UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 (KUNA) -- Deputy Chairperson of Woman Affairs Committee of the Kuwaiti Cabinet Sheikha Hessa Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah suggested Thursday that the United Nations should launch a center for woman empowering.

"Such a center could improve the skills of women and coordinate the relationship between the education output and the requirements of the labor market," she said in Kuwait's address to the 52nd session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

"The center should develop training programs in the areas of economy, finance and investment and back the decision-making process in most of the world countries.

"The greater involvement in the economic development and bigger role in decision-making on highest levels are the top priorities of women worldwide.

"Thereby, we call on governments and decision-makers of the world countries to improve the relationship between the education output and the requirements of the labor market," said Sheikha Hessa, also Chairwoman of the Council of Arab Businesswomen and outstanding female activist.

"The governments should provide a greater opportunity for women to take part in the development of national economic policies and contribute to the economic growth.

"They have also to support the small-, and medium-, size enterprises run by women with a view to enhancing the micro economy in the UN members," Sheikha Hessa underscored.

"Kuwait worked with the UN to enhance women positive role in economic development and gave the due attention to woman issues," he pointed out.

Meanwhile, Sheikha Hessa hailed the inaugurating speech of the CSW session made by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday.

Ban has declared the start of a serious campaign against all forms of violence against women.

Sheikha Hessa suggested that the UN should issue a statement committing governments of world countries to Ban's campaign to end of all forms of violence against women by 2015 in full cooperation with.

"The proposed statement should call on governments to launch national centers to deal will any cases of violence targeting women.

"Kuwait which recognizes danger posed to socio-economic development by the violence against women, worked to provide all conditions conducive to woman stability and welfare.

"The provisions of the 1962 constitution stipulate in clear terms the empowerment and protection of women and gender equality.

"Kuwaiti women have recently asserted themselves in politics when 27 women ran for the parliamentary elections of June, 2006, and the first female took a ministerial post," Sheikha Hessa recalled.

On the sidelines of the CSW session, she met U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development Kwame Sundaram Jomo on Wednesday.

The CSW is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women.

Representatives of its member states gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York annually to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote the status of women worldwide.

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