[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”] Beyond Equality: A Manual for Human Rights Defenders 2015/Women’s Learning Partnership Mahnaz Afkhami & Ann Eisenberg Published in English; available online at www.learningpartnership.org/beyond-equality-manual-human-rights-defenders A quick review of recent news headlines reveals the world’s growing detachment from finding solutions to human rights issues and, increasingly, shows that states…
Tag: Human Rights
The Cyrus Cylinder Exhibit: A VOA Documentary
The VOA documentary on the occasion of the exhibition of The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer/Sackler Gallery of Art features Mahnaz Afkhami, along with other scholars, who weigh in on the importance of this exhibition, especially during the existing tension between Iran and the U.S. Afkhami notes that the…
The Word on Women: MENA region tops agenda at AWID global women's rights forum
The 12th International Forum of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development took place in Istanbul in October, 2012, where Mahnaz Afkhami spoke on conservative religion, political regimes, and women’s rights in the MENA region.
Victories Over Violence: Ensuring Safety for Women and Girls
[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”] Victories Over Violence: Ensuring Safety for Women and Girls A Practitioner’s Manual 2012/Women’s Learning Partnership Mahnaz Afkhami & Haleh Vaziri Published in English, Persian, French, and Spanish; available online at www.learningpartnership.org/vov Violence against women and girls is both a global and local societal ill– global…
Mahnaz Afkhami Testifies at U.S. Senate Hearing "Women and the Arab Spring"
Mahnaz Afkhami testified at a US Senate Hearing on November 2, 2011, on the subject of women and the Arab Spring. “It is therefore of utmost importance for women’s equality in these countries undergoing radical transformation that the United States give its explicit support for women’s full and equal participation in national reform processes,” Afkhami…
Obama, Ahmadinejad, and the Women of Iran
This month, for the first time in 30 years, formal negotiations between the United States and Iran took place in a relatively positive atmosphere. As President Obama had promised during his campaign, dialogue took the place of diatribe. This is an important development. Why now and why during the term of the holocaust-denying, US-bashing President…
Why Freedom Matters
[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”] Why Freedom Matters Edited by Daniel Katz, Introduction by Norman Lear, Forewards by Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford Publisher: Workman Publishing (2003) Order on Amazon Inspired by the Declaration of Independence, our nation’s “birth certificate,” Why Freedom Matters is a collection of more than 100 speeches,…
Women, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective
[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, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective Edited by Marjorie Agosin Publisher: Rutgers University Press; None edition (September 1, 2001) Order on Amazon The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and equal. But…