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Leadership and Empowerment

Audio and video recordings of past WLP events and discussions in the area of leadership and empowerment.

  • Against All Odds: Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis

    These are trying times for women in many parts of the world. War, violence, extremism, fundamentalism, and restrictive legislation are but the most striking of the hurdles women must overcome as they strive for the most rudimentary of rights.

    Against All Odds: Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis tells the story of women activists from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East who, working in partnership, have developed and implemented appropriate strategies to overcome these challenges. These women leaders speak of the ways and means of strengthening women’s movements by building alliances, sharing inter-generational experience and expertise, and devising contextual, culture-specific, grassroots-based approaches to empowering women and girls. Read more.

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  • Women and Leadership in Muslim Societies: Voices for Change

    Prominent women leaders discuss women's leadership and strategies for expanding women's political participation in Muslim societies. Speakers include Azar Nafisi (Iran), a visiting scholar at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at Johns Hopkins University; Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran/USA), Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership; Ayesha Imam (Nigeria), an expert on women's legal rights in Africa; Asma Khader (Jordan), a leading advocate of the campaign to strengthen legislation outlawing honor killing, is a member of the Permanent Arab Court as Counsel on violence against women; Thoraya Obaid (Saudi Arabia), Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); and Shirin Tahir-Kheli (Pakistan), former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for special political affairs. Read more.

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  • Leading to Choices: Women's Leadership and Institutional Change

    Leading civil society and women's rights experts discuss women's leadership and strategies for institutional change.

    Speakers include Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran/USA), Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership; Charlotte Bunch (USA), Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership(CWGL); Ayesha Imam (Nigeria), Founding Director of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights in Nigeria; Kumi Naidoo (South Africa), Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation; and Aruna Rao (India), President of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). Read more.

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Alerts & Updates
WLP President Mahnaz Afkhami Curates "On Generations" for the International Musuem of Women
November 30, 2012 | 2012 Events, art, IMOW, inter-generational, Leadership
This fall WLP President Mahnaz Afkhami curated On Generations for the International Museum of Women's Curating Change. This exhibit features the voices of women thought-leaders, filmmakers, and activists who curate their favorite stories from IMOW's rich global archives. 
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Women in Kyrgyzstan Plan to Advance Women's Political Participation at WLP Training of Trainers in Bishkek
March 27, 2012 | Asia, Leading to Action, Leadership, Leading To Choices Multimedia, Political Participation, Kyrgyzstan
From March 23-27, 2012 a national Training of Trainers (TOT) on "Leadership and Women's Political Participation" was held by WLP Kyrgyzstan/Citizens Against Corruption as part of WLP's Global Training of Trainers Initiative. 
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Publications: One Million Signatures Inside Story in Arabic and Measuring Change Evaluation Manual
October 7, 2011 | Iran's One Million Signatures Campaign, Middle East, Leadership, Measuring Change, Iran, OMS Inside Story
Two new resources are available for download from Women’s Learning Partnership: Arabic edition of Iranian Women’s One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality: The Inside Story  A comprehensive account of Iranian women activists' successful awareness-raising efforts on a grassroots level.   — Shirin Ebadi Nobel Peace Laureate, 2003 Originally published in Iran, and released through the WLP Translation Series in English following Iran’s 2009 presidential election, the book is now available in Arabic.
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Women’s Political Participation and Leadership: Challenging Fundamentalisms
February 22, 2011 | 2011 Events, Leadership, Political Participation
BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights views women’s public and political participation as critical towards reshaping the economic, political, and social landscape to allow for equality in opportunities for both women and men. We envision a society devoid of fundamentalisms of any kind where women’s human rights becomes an integral part of everyday life. We know that this can only happen with the active participation and inclusion of women in all spheres of development, for their own good and the good of society.
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