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m or more). Large shade trees (canopy trees) have been adopted and
used in the design of road networks
to reduce noise, pollution and heat,
especially in the summer.
Summary of the Ministry of Education’s response:
The entity stated that it takes a keen
interest in the issue of promoting societal culture and raising its awareness of environmental concepts
through implementing a set of
measures aimed at consolidating
best practices related to the promotion of the right to a safe and healthy
environment.
Among
those
measures are: integrating environmental issues into the contents of
educational curricula and courses,
addressing this topic in core educational subjects, formulating new
courses and lessons to promote the
right to a safe and healthy environment, and implementing a set of
programs and activities that encourage environmental best practices.
The concerned entity explained that
its educational curricula, programs
and school activities aim to promote
a culture of planting trees and agriculture.
Summary of the Supreme Council
for Environment’s response:
The Supreme Council indicated that
it cooperates with the Ministry of
Education in spreading environmental culture and boosting the role of
teachers and students in preserving
the environment, as well as in developing educational curricula to enhance those values among school
students, while organizing educational trips to Qurum Nature Reserve and other environmental sites.
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The Council added that it gives
awareness lectures related to the
environment, especially on the
problem of household waste and its
management and planting trees,
and it launches online awareness
campaigns highlighting the responsibilities of the individual towards the
environment and sponsors frequent
campaigns to clean the islands and
beaches.
Requirement Two
Recommendations of the Seminar on
“Women’s Rights and Equal Pay”
1) Text of the Recommendation:
Spread awareness among girls and women
by raising the level of higher education in
various fields such as information technology, mathematics and engineering.
2) Text of the Recommendation:
Follow-up and evaluate periodically the recommendations of the National Plan for the
Advancement of Women, the implementation of its outputs, and the extent of progress achieved, and disseminate the recommendations through various media.
3) Text of the Recommendation:
Continue to strive for greater societal culture regarding not limiting certain jobs to a
specific gender, color, race, or religion.
4) Text of the Recommendation:
Increase the involvement of the most vulnerable groups such as women, children,
persons with disabilities and the elderly in
the field of training, technology and science.
5) Text of the Recommendation:
Continue supporting the rights of women in
the areas of training and capacity building,
and take part in raising the minimum wage
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