Everything before us today refers to a further retreat from democracy. I won't say that the retreat from democracy across the world began with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The word “WAR” means a lot to us in Yemen. It is linked, in our mind, to many tragedies, pains, and various forms of implications and effects that have turned our life into a nightmare.

I am absolutely thrilled to stand before you today. 17 years have been passed since the International Children’s Peace Prize was launched in 2005 during the World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome.

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.

Welcome all of you. It is my pleasure and honor to have this opportunity to talk to you in this important event that seeks to shed light on aspects that may receive little attention from the media and different governments and have an effect on the situation of women within their societies. There is no doubt that a topic like this usually provokes intense debate as a result of conflicting desires and viewpoints.

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.

It would be a kind of misinformation to say that the rise of populist movements in Western democracies is exclusively due to the use of misinformation, or that it is a threat to democracy and not a consequence of the retreat from the democracy and human rights values that have marked Western policies over the past decade. Let ‘s say frankly that the rise of racist populism in the Western countries is attributable to the fact that this phenomenon has not been dealt with as a problem from early on.