Fundraising and WLP Program Coordinator at Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work (FSWW) (Turkey)
WLP and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies will present a day-long event examining and re-imagining the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the foundation for global security and sustainable development, using conversation, poetry, film, and music.
International experts and young activists will reignite and reorient dialogue on the place of human rights in policy-making, and underscore the integral role of women’s advancement in development of human rights. The program will feature proven models for alleviating poverty, improving health and sanitation, and countering violent extremism, as well as the Washington D.C. premiere of the WLP documentary film: Human Rights: The Unfinished Journey
Zainab Bangura, special representative of the UN Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, gives the Keynote Address at WLP's event, The World We Seek.
L to R: Poets Lissa Piercy and Jamila Reddy listen to Gowri Koneswaran share her poem about life after an armed conflict.
WLP hosts an annual, week-long strategic planning event and celebration that is attended by the directors of all of our partner organizations, our Board of Directors, and members of our Advisory Council.
This event will feature readings by leading women poets during the 62nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York City, 2018. Abena Busia, Jamila Reddy, Fatemeh Shams, and Michelle Yasmine Valladares present.
