UN forum in Bahrain calls to support women entrepreneurs in conflict zones

Anjali Sharma

GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 18th May. The bi-annual UN forum on entrepreneurship and innovation ended on Friday in Bahrain focused on women entrepreneurs from conflict zones, and stressed the importance of investing in their activities as a means of building peace, security, and stability in their communities.

Women entrepreneurs from Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Sudan and Gaza were in the spotlight at the closing of the 2024 World Entrepreneurship Investment Forum.

‘Women, Peace and Security’ the panel focused on the businesswomen shared moving stories of how their projects inspired them to help others, and of the need for more funding.

Dr. Hashim Hussein, Head of the UNIDO Office for Technology and Investment Promotion in Bahrain, which facilitated the forum, said he was proud that “we have been able to ensure that entrepreneurs raise their voices.”

“We have seen that entrepreneurs within the United Nations system had the opportunity to speak. And, young people, we are listening to them now; they used to be just listeners.”

“I think the greatest achievement of WEIF 2024 is that we have…involved the international community in recognizing and understanding the problems and hardships of women in conflict and how we can help them,” he went on to say.

He told on the margins of the forum that such support should be through economic development, to ensure that they sustain their families “and, of course, the communities and the countries which they are living in. I think this is going to be our major achievement this year of the World Interference Investment Forum 2024.”