Women in the Middle East: Attitudes and Advocacy in an Opening Political Space

Women in the Middle East: Attitudes and Advocacy in an Opening Political Space

Gender Issues

August 12, 2011 to August 12, 2011 - IFES

The United States of America, MENA

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Women wait outside a women's polling station in Beirut during Lebanon's 2009 parliamentary elections. John D. Lawrence/IFES

EVENT INFORMATION

When: 
Friday, August 12, 2011 
9:45 a.m. — 11:45 a.m.

 

Where: 
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place NW
Washington, DC 20001
USA 

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Rola Abdul-Latif, IFES Senior Research Specialist, and Vasu Mohan, IFES Deputy Director for Europe and Asia, will present at a workshop on women in the Middle East during InterAction’s 2011 Forum.

Abdul-Latif will present data, captured through IFES’ Status of Women in the Middle East project, on where women in Yemen, Morocco and Lebanon stand politically, economically and socially.

Mohan will act as moderator and provide information on IFES’ gender programming.

Abdul-Latif and Mohan will be joined on the panel by:

Carla Koppell, Senior Coordinator, Office of Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment, USAID

Wameedh Shakir, Founder and Board Member of WATAN Coalition (The Yemeni Women for for Social Peace Campaign); Gender and Development Consultant

For more information, please visit:  http://www.interaction.org/

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