|  | Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, welcomed Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, at the General Secretariat headquarters, on 15 February. The meeting covered several topics of mutual interest.
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|  | The extraordinary session of the Council of the League of Arab States convened at the level of foreign ministers on 11 October at the headquarters of the League of Arab States' General Secretariat.
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|  | The General Secretariat's Social Affairs Sector and its Department of Culture and Dialogue of Civilisations organised an exhibition on Ancient Palestinian Inscriptions and Writings on 22-23 August.
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|  | Violence against women and girls is a blatant
violation of human rights. Women and girls have for long been facing
discrimination despite international, regional and national efforts in this
regard.
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|  | One of the priorities of the General Secretariat
of the League of Arab States is the health of Arab women.
Therefore, the General Secretariat is interested in commemorating Breast Cancer
Awareness Day in the Arab world, on 1 October every year. This date was established to raise women’s
awareness about breast cancer, as well as to urge and remind
them of the importance of the early detection of the disease. |
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|  | On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, a celebration of
World Population Day was held under the patronage of His Excellency the
Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, at its
headquarters in Cairo. |
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|  | The Secretariat General of the League of Arab
States celebrated World Intellectual Property Day under the slogan
"Intellectual Property and Youth: Innovation for a Better Future", on
Thursday, May 19, 2022, at the headquarters of the Secretariat General in
Cairo. |
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|  | The Arab Palestinian Prisoner Day celebration is
based on the implementation of the resolution of the Damascus Summit in 2008 to
be celebrated on the seventeenth of April of each year as an expression of Arab
solidarity with the Palestinian and Arab prisoners in the prisons of the
Israeli occupation. |
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|  | Digital inclusion means empowering people through ICT and digital inclusion activities are designed to enhance access and use of ICT for the social and economic development of people with specific needs, including indigenous people, rural people and persons with disabilities, women, girls, youth and children. |
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|  | The League of Arab States, in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), held the Third Arab Regional Conference on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights under the title "The Impact of Occupation and Armed Conflict on Human Rights, Especially the Rights of Women and Children". The headquarters of the General Secretariat in Cairo. |
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