On September 11, Mahnaz Afkhami spoke at the Women and Girls Rising: Historical Reflections & Future Prospects Conference. The Conference took take place September 11-12, 2014.
The Conference considered the obstacles they faced and the opposition that rose against them. We will provide rich content that identifies and analyzes critical issues of strategy, policy, program, and resource allocation. The conference and the publication will be organized around conversations between at least two speakers, pairing activists with scholars, women and men of the Global South with those of the North, and pioneers of the past with their activist counterparts today.
Through initiating dialogue and cultivating networks, Women and Girls Rising will engage multiple generations of policymakers, activists, and scholars to inform and enrich public policy and foster the next generation of progressive leadership. We will begin by discussing this rich history in preparation for the 20th anniversary of the UN’s Beijing Platform for Action, adopted in 1995. Women and Girls Rising intends to ground today’s policy solutions in the history of visionaries who first recognized that women’s rights are fundamental human rights, and human rights are the right of every woman.
The Roosevelt Institute’s mission is to illuminate the vision of pioneers over the past half century who understood the importance of granting women civil and political equality along with social, economic, and cultural rights.
Space is limited. Advance registration is required.