Content_paragraphs:  Women representatives of the Ashkali, Egyptian and Roma communities, civil 
  
  society groups and local authorities attended a focus group discussion held on 
  
  30 September and 15 October on the empowerment of women. The event, organized 
  
  by the United Nations Development Coordinator, UNHCR and the Uni ted Nations 
  
  Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), was 
  
  focused on ways to address the lack of education and employment opportunities and 
  
  limited access to public services, which were identified as the main obstacles to the 
  
  empowerment of women among non-majority communities. UNHCR also continued 
  
  to support members of the Ashkali, Egyptian and Roma communities in obtaining 
  
  civil documentation and resolving civil status issues in order to enable them to have 
  
  access to various public services. It provided legal aid to 159 individuals (90 women 
  
  and 69 men) for civil registration procedures. In addition, 85 individuals (49 women 
  
  and 36 men) were given support to have access to and benefit from education, social 
  
  assistance, property and pension rights.