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Mishkat Al Moumin was Minister of the Environment in Iraq and founded a non-governmental organization called Women and the Environment. The NGO uses education on resource management to empower rural women in Iraq, and it has trained nearly 8,000 people to manage water, sanitation and hygiene in 50 villages in the Basra, Maysan and Thi Qar provinces. This has included training women to participate in the design of their village environments, and educating village leaders on the critical role of women as users of environmental resources. “During CSW, I will emphasize the connection linking women, security, and the environment, and the fact that women are the primary users of environmental resources. It is essential to enact international and national policies that facilitate the participation of women in managing environmental resources in general and water in particular,” she says. Al Moumin will participate in a CSW side event that explores ways to support the engagement of rural women with sustainable natural resource management in conflict and fragile settings.
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