This session explores strategies for improving dialogue, provides practice in areas of active listening and respectful communication, and considers the impact of empathy in addressing human rights and resolving conflict.
Mahnaz Afkhami, President and founder of Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), discuss the recent International Women Leaders Global Security Summit (IWLGSS) held November 15-17, 2007 (New York City), which aimed to bring perspectives and voices of global women leaders to the international discourse on security.
Part of a series of interviews focusing on best practices for activists and human rights organizations with speakers and panelists of WLP's "2020 Vision" event, itself part of the 2010 annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York City.
When justice feels distant, it is often women who bring it closer. In communities where courts are far away, stigma silences survivors, and the law feels inaccessible, access to justice depends not only on institutions, but on trusted local actors who can translate legal rights into lived protection.
