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.
On October 15, 2021, WLP hosted a discussion with Former Minister for Women’s Affairs in Afghanistan Sima Samar and Former Governor of Bamyan Province Habiba Sarabi, moderated by Former UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid and WLP Founder and President Mahnaz Afkhami. The discussion focused on their experiences as women leaders and human rights advocates in Afghanistan and what can be done to support women and girls.
