Technology and Women

Asma Khader speaks on leadership, women's leadership in Muslim societies, and her experiences and inspirations as a lawyer and women's human rights activist in Jordan. She addresses difficulties and practicalities of efforts to reform laws surrounding practices such as honor killing, and the difference between law reform in theory and law reform in practice.

Ayesha Imam, then head of WLP Nigeria/BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights (BAOBAB), talks about specific ways that Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) facilitate better communication between other women's rights organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including those who do not have access to the Internet.

Part of a series of interviews recorded at WLP International with WLP partners following transnational partners meeting, September 2015 (for use in Human Rights webinar). This interview is with Barbara Phillips, social justice activist, civil rights lawyer and former Program Officer responsible for the women’s rights portfolio of Peace and Social Justice Program of the Ford Foundation.

Mahnaz Afkhami gives a short closing statement, which is followed by interviews with a few of the audience members about their feelings on the symposium and what they will take away from it.