Location: Chicago Council on Global Affairs Conference Center, 130 East Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60601 Description: In recent years the US government has incorporated gender equality as a metric of policy development and program investment of its domestic and foreign policies. Yet despite many indicators of progress for women and girls everywhere more work remains,…
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Women and Girls Rising: Progress and Resistance Around the World
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”row”][tm_pb_column type=”4_4″][tm_pb_accordion admin_label=”Accordion” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [tm_pb_accordion_item title=”Overview”] Women and Girls Rising: Progress and Resistance Around the World Edited by Ellen Chesler and Terry McGovern Publisher: Routledge, New York City, 2016 A growing body of evidence demonstrates that improvements in the status of women and girls – however worthy and important in their…
Highlights from the 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations
The 60th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW60) took place in March, 2016, at the United Nations in New York. Mahnaz Afkhami spoke on a panel of CSW60 attendees to share highlights from the UN session.
Consultation Day: Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 59)
Location: 777 United Nations Plaza, 1st Floor, New York, New York 10017 Description: For the 30,000 non-governmental representatives attending the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, as well as for the many who could not, the meeting was a glorious achievement. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) was the “can do” result…
Women and Girls Rising: Progress and Resistance Around the World
Time: 3-4 pm Location: Wilson Center, Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania, Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20004 Description: The Women in Public Service Project at the Wilson Center will host the event “Women and Girls Rising: Progress and Resistance Around the World.” The event will be moderated by Foreign Policy Correspondent Indira Lakshmanan. Opening remarks will…
1818 Society Bulletin-- Gender and Development
The 1818 Society – an organization of former World Bank Group employees – hosted Mahnaz Afkhami as a guest speaker to discuss the progress of international conventions on the status of women. “Looking ahead, the overall challenge is to reconstruct our 21st century society. Dr. Afkhami’s vision is that this can be achieved with both…
A Personal Remembrance of Fatema Mernissi
Fatema Mernissi, the Moroccan sociologist widely known as a pioneer in Middle Eastern Women’s studies, passed away this week. It is difficult for me to speak of her – a friend, ally, and colleague of over two decades – in the past tense. I first met Fatema at the Middle East Studies Association Conference in…
The First Female Ambassador in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Ensuing the appointment of Marzieh Afkham as the ambassador to Malaysia — the first female ambassador in post-revolutionary Iran — Voice of America interviewed Mahnaz Afkhami about the significance of this matter. Comparing Afkham with the first female ambassador in Iran’s history, Mehrangiz Dolatshahi, Mahnaz Afkhami noted that Dolatshahi had worked for years in women’s organizations,…