Rima al-Qadiri (born 1963) is a Syrian Arab politician who served as Minister of Social Affairs and Labour from 2015 to 2020.

Early life

Rima al-Qadiri was born in 1963 in

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, Syria. In 1986 she graduated from the

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from the French Literature Department of the University. She worked in private institutions after graduating. She also worked in the Syrian Commercial bank.

Career

Rima al-Qadiri joined the International Planning and Cooperation Commission as the assistant head in 2009. In 2014 she was promoted to the head of the commission. She was sworn in as the Minister of Social Affairs on 22 August 2015 by President Bashar al-Assad. She replaced the previous Minister Kinda al-Shammat. She met Syrian expatriates from

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and discussed ways they could support the Syrian government. In April 2017 she attended the summit of women affairs ministers from Muslim majority countries that was held in

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, Khorasan Razavi,

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. She met

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, the Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs of Iran, on the sidelines of the summit in Iran. She visited

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on 29 August، 2017 and met the President of Balarus

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. They discussed ways of providing education to Syrian children in Belarus.

References

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