This video presents the second panel discussion and an audience Q&A at Celebrating UN Women: The Way Forward, a symposium presented by WLP to celebrate the launch of UN Women, the most significant structure yet devised by the community of nations to address challenges and strategies for bringing about fundamental and all-encompassing change in gender relations.
Goli Taraghi discusses the conditions of a writer and woman in Iran, and presents excerpts from her book, Mr. Alef in Paris at WLP's Lifelines: The Literature of Women's Human Rights, 2002, American University.
Mahnaz Afkhami discusses the stereotypes of Muslims and Muslim women commonly presented by the Western media, in an interview with Anne Petrie of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
