Summary

WLP Partners joined over two thousand women activists in Istanbul for the 12th triennial Forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). In a pre-Forum meeting organized by WLP together with the Global Fund for Women, Equality Without Reservation, and AWID, 80 women leaders from 18 countries in the MENA and 20 activists from other countries in transition discussed recent developments in several Arab countries, focusing on the status of women and the appropriate strategies for the development of cultures of participatory pluralism. Thoraya Obaid, former Undersecretary General of the United Nations and then Chair of the Board of WLP, participated in all four days of the debates and drafted a summary of the findings.

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