Enas al-Shafie, WLP Egypt/Forum for Women in Development (FWID), discusses the Egyptian government's increasingly restrictive practices against non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and describes cooperation between different NGOs to provide aid to Lebanon in the wake of the 2006 Lebanon War.
Lina Abou Habib (Lebanon) speaks about the effects of the 2006 Lebanon War on Lebanese society, CRTD-A's work to aid internally displaced persons resulting from the conflict, and how the damage to Lebanese infrastructure and services affected Lebanese women.
Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva, WLP Uzbekistan/Tashkent Women's Resource Center (TWRC) (closed by the Uzbek government in 2006), describes TWRC actions that triggered the organization's closing by an increasingly authoritarian Uzbek government, and the cooperation between different women's rights NGOs in Central Asia.
Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) describes the work of her organization since the 2001 American invasion of Afghanistan and toppling of the Taliban.
