Empowering Syrian Women Refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, CSW61

A CSW61 Parallel Event

Event Details

  • Time

    02:30pm

  • Date

    14 Mar, 2017

  • Location

    • Church Center of the United Nations, 10th floor
    • New York,

  • Contact

    WLP

Lina Abou-Habib

Executive Director of Women’s Learning Partnership and Executive Director of Collective for Research & Training on Development-Action.

Yakin Ertürk

Former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and former Director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW).

Hosted by WLP Lebanon/Collective for Research & Training on Development – Action (CRTD-A) and WLP Jordan/Sisterhood is Global Institute-Jordan (SIGI-J).

Currently, there are an estimated 4.5 million registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, the three main countries where Syrian refugees have taken refuge. Women refugees bear the brunt of the displacement and the panel will discuss how NGOs in the region can support and empower them through leadership trainings and skills building. At this CSW parallel event, expert panelists will draw on their experiences working with refugees and grassroots women in these countries.

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