On 17th April 2018, Ambassador Norlin Othman met up with Dato’ Maimunah Sharif, former Mayor of Penang who is now the Executive Director of The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in Nairobi, Kenya. She was in Stockholm as a key note speaker at a conference on gender equality. The conference took place at the Stockholm City Conference Centre from 15th to 17th April 2018.
This forum on Gender Equality brings together close to 500 key representatives from civil society organisations, governments, business, and academia around the globe. The aim is to find solutions, take new initiatives, and strengthen co-operation in the international fight for gender equality.