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The policy of the European Union towards the North African and Middle Eastern countries seeks to encourage political and economic reform in each individual country in due respect for its specific features and regional cooperation among the countries of the region themselves and with the EU.
Today, the European Union joined over 300 Palestinian students in cleaning the streets of East Jerusalem in conjunction with the International Clean-up Campaign: Let’s Do it! Ten schools from various neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem participated in the initiative and joined the world in this international movement.
From 9 to 27 September 2019 the EU will participate actively in the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC42) taking place in Geneva.
تقبّل جلالة الملك عبدالله الثاني أوراق اعتماد سفير
"Women in politics… if they are not strong and effective… they cannot prove themselves to others at the political party level or the community. Therefore I appeal to every woman wanting to enter politics, to work hard on themselves. To be accepted by others, they must stand on solid grounds", stressed Wahiba Ahmed Sabrah, Vice President for the Yemeni Center of Studies and Research at an EU supported meeting on women in the peace process which took place in Cairo earlier this year. More recently a large group of Yemeni women gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a second meeting to discuss how to pave the way for a peace process. They identified options and areas of consensus for such an agreement and the subsequent transitional period in Yemen.
In the rapidly changing world of technology, Palestinian judges need to be fully updated so they can better handle cybercrime cases and electronic evidence with integrity and fairness. EUPOL COPPS advisers are helping the judges to raise their capabilities so they can cope with the new realities of the cyber-world.
