Conference

(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department – Amman) - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah today attended part of the Youth@Work: Partnerships for Skills Development conference, convened by the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and the Arab Urban Development Institute (AUDI), and sponsored by the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Youth Employment.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- Amman) – Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah attended today part of TAKAFUL conference’s second day sessions. Takaful is the First Annual Conference on Philanthropy and Civic Engagement, which is jointly organized by the Columbia University Middle East Research Center (CUMERC) and the Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University of Cairo (Gerhart Center, AUC).

GENEVA - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah stressed that access to human dignity and respect is just as important as access to education, medicine and technology.

“The right to human dignity is non-negotiable. The world’s great faiths and philosophies all draw strength from the same core belief that dignity is intrinsic to humankind as a universal birthright,” Queen Rania said at the 28th International Conference of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies in Geneva.

(Jordan Times, Rana Husseini - Amman) Around one-third of Jordanians reported they were aware that incidents of violence occur in their own families, according to a local survey on domestic violence released on Tuesday.

Wives and mothers were the most vulnerable family members, according to the survey entitled, “Domestic Violence in Jordan, Knowledge, Attitudes and Status, 2005.”

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah attended the launch of Amnesty International’s regional version of the worldwide “Stop Violence Against Women” campaign with representatives of concerned organizations from the Middle East and North Africa as well as religious leaders attending.

(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department – Dubai) - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah joined leading journalists and media executives from around the world at the Fourth Conference of the Arab Thought in Dubai, on Monday, affirming her confidence in the key role of the media in the region.

(The Jordan Times, By Sahar Alul - Amman) Although the digital divide has been addressed in terms of access to Information Communications Technology (ICT) equipment, interested parties gathered to discuss bridging the ICT gender gap.

“We can use this time of change to change more than our access to computers, we can use it to help change ideas, attitudes and even dreams,” said Minister of Education Khalid Touqan in his keynote address at the “`E'-quality in the IT sector” conference.

(Jordan Times - Amman) Married women are the most susceptible to domestic violence, constituting 80 per cent of victims, according to a study released on Monday.
Eighty per cent of reported family violence cases in the Kingdom were perpetrated by a family member, with 45 per cent committed by the husband, 23 per cent by the father and 16 per cent by the brother, the study indicated.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - BEIRUT) On a one-day working visit to Lebanon, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah highlighted the importance that both Jordan and Lebanon place on long-term investment in their citizens.

"Lebanon and Jordan have long believed in human capital investment. Indeed, we both share the realization that a nation's competitive edge depends on the cumulative skills of its citizens," the Queen said in a keynote speech at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.