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Press Corner
WLP President Mahnaz Afkhami is frequently interviewed as an expert on women’s rights issues in the Middle East and North Africa, and particularly on women in leadership, women and technology, Islam and women’s human rights, and culture and development.
We can connect media representatives with leading women's rights activists at our partner organizations in Afghanistan, Brazil, Cameroon, Egypt, India, Iran, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Palestine, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe, as well as the experts on our Board of Directors.
For media inquiries, please contact Program Associate Christina Halstead at (301) 654-2774 or email press@learningpartnership.org.
See our Events Calendar for a full listing of WLP events, past and present; and our current edition of eNews.
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Recent media coverage of the work of WLP and partners:
- "Lebanon:Women, non-Lebanese children get raw deal" IRIN. July 22, 2008.
- "Mauritania: Moves towards political empowerment for women" IRIN. April 1, 2008.
- "Jordan: Women seek equal rights under Citizenship Law" The Jordan Times. December 28, 2007.
- "Kyrgyzstan: Women activists report increasing harassment" EurasiaNet. August 5, 2007.
- "Iran: One Million Signatures to End Discrimination" Voices Unabridged. July 23, 2007.
- "Moroccan women seek increased representation in legislative elections" Magharebia. April 8, 2007.
- "You Can't Judge An Iranian Woman by Her Cover." ABC News. February 12, 2007.
- "Challenging the Mullahs, One Signature at a Time." The New York Times. February 7, 2007.
- "Fighting the Good Fight for Women's Rights." National Public Radio (NPR). September 9, 2006.
- "Successful law reform." The Star (Malaysia). March 27, 2006.
- "Iranian women's rights severely restricted." The Washington Times (USA). March 8, 2006.
- "Lebanon:Law does not recognize children of Lebanese females." The Daily Star (Lebanon). March 8, 2006.
- "Viewpoint: Women's Learning Partnership." One World Perspectives Magazine (USA). February 24, 2006.
- "Spirit of the law." The Star (Malaysia). February 9, 2006.
- "Where the mountains are still growing." The Dominion (Canada). January 16, 2006.
- "Reforming Islamic family law." Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (USA). January/February, 2006.
- "Women can do much once they realize their power." The Daily Star (Lebanon). September 28, 2004.
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Lebanon: Women, non-Lebanese children get raw deal
IRIN
July 22, 2008
Thousands of children in Lebanon are denied full access to education, healthcare and residency because they do not have Lebanese citizenship.
Lebanese women cannot pass on their nationality to their children and in the event of separation, it is the father who gains automatic custody, according to Lebanese nationality law.
Mauritania: Moves towards political empowerment for women
IRIN
April 1, 2008
Mauritania is often held up as a beacon when it comes to the proportion of women elected to political office - a 20 percent minimum quota was instituted in 2006 - but experts told IRIN once in power many women are still sidelined from taking important political decisions.
“While the quota is a major step forward, changing the situation of Mauritanian women is still a slow process because their colleagues discourage them from leading on issues,” Aminettou Mint Ely, head of the local non-governmental organisation (NGO) Association of Women (AFCF), told IRIN.
Jordan: Women seek equal rights under Citizenship Law
By Rana Husseini
28 December 2007
The Jordan Times
AMMAN - Um Omar is a Jordanian who married a Syrian construction worker 16 years ago, but four years ago, he left without notice and no one knows his whereabouts.
The 45-year-old mother of nine tried to seek government help since her children are not Jordanian citizens and cannot benefit from many privileges, but was shocked to learn that they do not support non-Jordanian offspring.
Kyrgyzstan: Women activists report increasing harassment
EurasiaNet
Janyl Chytyrbaeva
August 5, 2007
Kyrgyzstan is known for having a strong civil society, but in recent months many observers have warned that the human-rights situation in the country has deteriorated.
Civil society leaders are now calling on the Kyrgyz government to halt persecution of human-rights activists.
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Women's Human Rights | Press Corner )
Iran: One Million Signatures to End Discrimination
by Abigail Somma
July 23, 2007
www.voices-unabridged.org
These days, when most people talk about Iran, the focus is on its nuclear program. But for a group of determined Iranian women, there’s a more pressing issue at hand. Since June 2006, human rights activists have been campaigning tirelessly for something that continues to elude Iranian women: equal rights.
The One Million Signatures Campaign or Change for Equality, started as a grassroots movement to collect a million signatures demanding the Iranian government change laws that discriminate against women.
Moroccan women seek increased representation in legislative elections
By Sarah Touahri
Magharebia
April 8, 2007
Because many Moroccans continue to put their faith in male political leadership, the country's women’s associations are calling upon female voters to elect more women to parliament.
As Morocco prepares to create candidate lists for September's legislative elections, women are stepping up efforts to increase their representation both on party lists and in parliament itself.
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Morocco | Press Corner )
You Can't Judge An Iranian Woman by Her Cover
By Diane Sawyer
ABC News, Good Morning America
February 12, 2007
Diane Sawyer Discovers Women's Rights in Iran Are More Complicated Than Many in West Believe
Women in Iran are allowed to vote at the age of 15. They hold 4 percent of the seats in Parliament, and more than half the university students are women.
Women make up more than 30 percent of Iran's work force.
Iran: Challenging the mullahs, one signature at a time
By Maura J. Casey, Editorial Observer
The New York Times
February 7, 2007
"Well-behaved women rarely make history," my favorite bumper sticker says. It surely applies to Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner whose relentless campaign against discrimination has enraged the mullahs for more than 25 years.
In a country where the law values a woman’s life at only half the price of a man’s, Ms. Ebadi will not be quiet, and she is urging other women to find their voices. Her newest effort is to help collect the signatures of one million Iranian women on a petition protesting their lack of legal rights.
WLP: Fighting the Good Fight for Women's Rights
by Jacki Lyden
All Things Considered, NPR
September 9, 2006
Participants in the Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace, a coalition of non-governmental organizations headed by and for women, met recently in Washington, D.C. Delegates from developing countries -- many from Islamic nations -- compared notes on the struggle to advance women's rights.
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Press Corner )
Lebanon: Law does not recognize children of Lebanese females
CRTD-A calls for right of all Lebanese to pass on nationality
By Meris Lutz
The Daily Star (Lebanon)
March 08, 2006
International women's day
BEIRUT: "Hi, I'm Rana. This is my daughter - she's Norwegian," the young woman said, gently bouncing the baby on her lap as she passed out fliers reading "My nationality: a right for me and my family" at AUB on Tuesday.
