At the beginning, I would like to thank the Parliamentary Networks Unit (PSUF) at FAO for inviting me to participate in this important event. Fighting hunger and malnutrition is a fundamental issue, and it should be given a priority in all actions and activities of States, international organizations and unions.

About four years have passed since Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been killed and his body cut up at his country's consulate in Turkey without achieving even a little bit of justice.

The titles we are today meeting to talk about and related to the leading role of women in making peace in the Middle East put us before a fact that our societies and peoples are facing great challenges at a time when wars and regimes hostile to democracy, peace and human rights keep widening.

First of all, I agree with those saying that “disinformation is a global problem”, but this sentence will remain incomplete without adding that a world without conscience sets behind such disinformation and false information.

Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, has delivered her speech on the 11th anniversary of the February 11 revolution. Here is the full text: 

I would like to express my thanks and appreciation for these efforts that seek to stop the death penalty.

Everything starts from education. I have always believed that education is a gateway to every development, every success, and every change.

Dear friends, Before Christ, or let us say before the history known to the world, Yemen was there, and Queen Bilqis of Sheba was the icon of ancient history, and the symbol of the glorious Yemeni history, as well as a symbol of the history of women and their pioneering role. I am from Yemen that introduced this great queen to the world.