UNFPA Executive Director, under UN-Secretary General, and WLP Board Chair, Thoraya Obaid, speaks at the Breakthrough Summit in Washington DC.
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Madeleine Albright speaking at the Women, Faith, and Development Alliance
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright giving a speech at the Women, Faith, and Development Alliance (Breakthrough Summit) at the National Cathedral in Washington DC.
Mahnaz Singing a Hymn at the Women, Faith, and Development Alliance
Former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell, WLP President Mahnaz Afkhami, and UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid singing a hymn alongside participants at the Women, Faith, and Development Alliance (Breakthrough Summit) at the National Cathedral in Washington DC.
Women's World Summit
(Left to right) Former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell, President of WLP Mahnaz Afkhami, and Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson attend the Women’s World Summit in Washington DC. The event formally launched the Women, Faith, and Development Alliance, an initiative aimed at ending poverty.
Information and Communication Technologies for Women’s Empowerment and Social Change
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution that the world has witnessed in the past decades has been potent and widespread. Today, we are living in an information age where technologies have drastically reduced the size of the globe by practically overcoming barriers of distance and time. We connect, communicate, and collaborate at speeds and…
The United States Stands by Women in Iran (in Persian)
This article, which focuses on Iranian women’s One Million Signature Campaign launched in 2006, quotes Mahnaz Afkhami as saying “this popular campaign at the very least educates people and prepares the ground for a public consensus, and at the very most leads to codifying egalitarian laws for women.”
VOA Roundtable: Discriminatory Laws against Women in Iran (in Persian)
Following a violent crackdown of women’s peaceful protests in Tehran, VOA Persian aired a program on discriminatory laws against women under the Islamic Republic regime, including a Q and A with callers from all over the world with Mahnaz Afkhami as its guest. Afkhami pointed out that Iranian women had never faced such violence or…