International: Women and legislative reform in Muslim-majority societies
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Women's Learning Partnership On 17 November 2005 at Johns Hopkins, women leaders from Muslim-majority societies will discuss strategies for the creation of egalitarian communities and reform of family law based on women's capability to choose.
The Women's Learning Partnership in collaboration with The SAIS Dialogue Project at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
WHEN
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Light lunch will be provided
WHERE
The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Kenney Auditorium
1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Azar Nafisi (Introductory Remarks), author of the best-seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, is a visiting scholar at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at Johns Hopkins University. She has written and lectured widely on the political implications of literature and culture and on the human rights of women and girls.
Mahnaz Afkhami (Chair), author and leading advocate of women's rights internationally for more than three decades, is Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership. She is Executive Director of the Foundation for Iranian Studies and former Minister of State for Women's Affairs in Iran.
Zainah Anwar (Malaysia), a women's rights activist and well-published freelance writer, is Executive Director of Sisters in Islam. She was formerly a member of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, Chief Programme Officer for the Political Division at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, and Senior Analyst at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies.
Asma Khader (Jordan), a leading advocate of the campaign to strengthen legislation outlawing honor killing, is a member of the Permanent Arab Court as Counsel on violence against women. She is the General Coordinator of Sisterhood Is Global Institute/Jordan and former Minister of Culture.
Rabéa Naciri (Morocco), is a board member and former President of Collectif 95 Maghreb-Egalité, a network of women's associations and women researchers from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia committed to preventing violence against women. She has written extensively on Arab women and poverty, women and Islam, and capacity-building for women.
