A top American official on women issues is visiting India beginning Saturday to work on the advancement of the US-India Strategic Dialogue on Women's Empowerment and hold interactions with various self-help groups, businesswomen and NGOs.
During her five-day India visit, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, Melanne Verveer, will travel to Chennai and New Delhi.
"In New Delhi, she will continue her work on the advancement of the US-India Strategic Dialogue on Women's Empowerment," the State Department said in a statement.
"The dialogue's focus on women's empowerment is unprecedented in the history of the US-India Strategic relationship and signals the importance both governments place on women's empowerment," the statement said.
She will also meet with various self-help groups, businesswomen and NGOs working on human rights and women's empowerment issues in Chennai.
Moreover, Verveer will deliver a keynote address at the Asia Women's Leadership Regional Summit, which was proposed by the Secretary
of State, Hillary Clinton, during her trip to
India last year.
From India Verveer heads to China, where she will speak in Shanghai at the All-China Women's Federation's International Forum on Women in Urban Development and Commemoration of the 15th Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women.
She will travel to Beijing to follow up on the last US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue on women and development, and to discuss the proposed US-China Women Leaders Forum.
"During her stay in China, Verveer is expected to meet with civil society leaders and government officials," the statement said.