Asma Khader speaks on leadership, women's leadership in Muslim societies, and her experiences and inspirations as a lawyer and women's human rights activist in Jordan. She addresses difficulties and practicalities of efforts to reform laws surrounding practices such as honor killing, and the difference between law reform in theory and law reform in practice.
Prominent Jordanian lawyer and women's rights activist Asma Khader of WLP Jordan/Sisterhood is Global Institute/Jordan (SIGI/J) discusses two advocacy campaigns that took place in Jordan (relating to violence against women and legal age for marriage).
Part of a series of interviews recorded at WLP International with WLP partners following transnational partners meeting, September 2015 (for use in Human Rights webinar). This interview is with Barbara Phillips, social justice activist, civil rights lawyer and former Program Officer responsible for the women’s rights portfolio of Peace and Social Justice Program of the Ford Foundation.
For CSW69, Women’s Learning Partnership co-hosted a panel highlighting key takeaways from launching a groundbreaking program empowering youth-led gender equality movements in Afghanistan and Iran.
