The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, will participate at the High Level Forum for First Ladies at the 68th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
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Tthe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event, with the theme "Building Bridges for Peace on Health Disability: Post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda Initiative", is scheduled for Sept. 24.
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She is expected to deliver a speech for the opening of the workshop session, while Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation on the African First Ladies Fellowship Programme, Nicole Brzeski, will chair the workshop.
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The session will address various creative strategies in addressing and overcoming peace challenges on various forms of women's health and wellbeing.
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Dr Ada Okika, the Secretary-General, U.S. Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations New York State Chapter, told NAN that the time had come for realistic understanding of the significance of a transformative agenda to build peace among nations.
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" Peace is directly related to poverty eradication, health care and improvement, good governance, leadership, social and economic emancipation and sustainability.
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"Throughout its history, there have been global experiences on a wide range of conflicts, violence and other numerous challenges.
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"These challenges must be addressed in order to promote human development, revitalise infrastructure and establish sustainable peace in working towards the future that the world want,'' Okika said.
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She noted that people throughout the world desired peace and good health, adding that women in particular had unique capacities to promote the peace and achieve positive health.
I don't think so many people look forward to this nowadays but it's all good.
Goodluck to her on that.