Women Empowerment: Commonwealth secy general lauds Hasina
Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for development innovation, “the SDG-Tracker”, and championing women's empowerment.
“Commonwealth under its innovation hub has placed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's social innovation initiative of designing and creating 'the SDG-Tracker' as a best practice for realising Agenda 2030,” she said while receiving newly-appointed Bangladesh High Commissioner to UK Saida Muna Tasneem at the Marlborough House on Thursday.
The Bangladesh high commissioner, also a member of the governing board of the Commonwealth, was briefing the secretary-general about the social innovation initiatives undertaken by the prime minister over 10 years that have placed Bangladesh in the top brackets of social indicators in South Asia.
The Commonwealth secretary general lauded Hasina for championing gender equality and creating equal opportunity for all, according to a press release received from Bangladesh High Commission in London.
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