The upcoming conference themed "The Khilafah: Protecting Women from Poverty and Enslavement" will gather 1,500 influential women from across the world to discuss the causes of and solutions to the desperate poverty, widespread exploitation, and general economic oppression affecting millions of women across the Muslim world and globally.
The conference will be attended by an audience of female political activists, journalists, academics, teachers, professors, university students, lawyers, community leaders, and representatives of various organizations.
Speakers from around the world, including Africa, Asia, the Arab world, and the West, will discuss the detrimental impact of the capitalist system and its free-market economy on the lives of women and their families.
They will also highlight the failure of the current leadership in the Muslim world to provide financial security for Muslim women and to protect them from enslavement.
The event will also present a detailed discussion of the Khilafah system, which is based purely on an Islamic Constitution, and will explain how its unique policies and laws provide a credible and time-tested approach to protect women from poverty and exploitation as well as establish financial security for them.
Dr. Nazreen Nawaz, Women`s Representative of The Central Media Office of Hizbut Tahrir, commented, "For too long, Western capitalist states have been selling the illusion to the world that the capitalist system and a free-market economy are the best ways to establish economic stability and prosperity for women."
She said, in reality, this corrosive ideology, which embraces the interest-based, debt-fuelled model of growth built on greed and credit, has created volatile economies, mass unemployment, and a one-track flow of wealth from the poor to the rich.
This has generated mass inequality in wealth and desperate levels of poverty, which afflicts millions of women across the world, causing many to seek employment as migrant workers in factories, farms, or businesses, often working under slave-like conditions for financial survival.
"There needs to be an end to all of this. It is now time for a new political and economic vision for the women of the Muslim world. There needs to be a system that places human need above financial gain a system that places the eradication of poverty through the fair distribution of wealth at the heart of its economy," she added.
Nawaz suggested the Khilafah system as a solution for the world. It is a system that greatly values motherhood and ensures that women are always financially supported by their male relatives or the state, while simultaneously viewing the preservation of women's economic rights as sacred, including their right to work in a safe environment that is free from exploitation or abuse.
(Uu.A051/INE/KR-BSR/O001)
Editor: Priyambodo RH
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