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On 11 January 2022, a meeting of the Senate Committee on Women and Gender Equality was held. The event was attended by senators, Committee experts, chairmen of the standing committees of local Keneshes on youth policy, women and gender equality, representatives of relevant ministries and departments, their territorial structures and the media.

The meeting discussed the draft Presidential Decree “On the Development Strategy of New Uzbekistan for 2022-2026”.

As you know, the Development Strategy and the roadmap for its implementation in 2022 stipulates the achievement of about 100 carefully developed goals within the 7 priority directions of the country’s development.

In recent years, a great deal of work has been done to increase the activity of women in all spheres of the country’s economic, political and social life, to provide comprehensive assistance in their acquisition of education and professional skills and to ensure their employment, to further support their entrepreneurial initiatives, to address the issues of women included in the “women’s notebook”, Systematic study, targeted solution of their needs and interests. It is important in the future to continue the systematic work begun in this direction.