Reminder - Tuesday in New York:

Leading Women Human Rights Defenders from Around the World to address RWCHR Official UN Parallel Event
Join us in New York City this Tuesday, March 20th, for our official parallel event to the 62nd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

Together with UN Watch, the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights will host leading women human rights defenders from around the world. These inspiring activists have put not only their livelihoods - but their lives - on the line in the struggle for freedom, democracy, and human rights.

Date: March 20th, 2018
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Church Center for the United Nations
777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
Room: Second Floor


For Registration : click here


Speakers:

Wai Wai Nu

Leading Rohingya activist and human rights lawyer, held for seven years as a political prisoner in Myanmar. Founder of Women Peace Network and Justice for Women.
Maria Corina Machado

Leading Venezuelan human rights activist and democratic opposition leader. María will join via video due to restrictions on her freedom of movement.
Mahnaz Afkhami

Iran's Minister for Women's Affairs from 1976-78, the first to hold such a position in the Muslim world. Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership.
Ketty Niviyabandi

Poet and exiled Burundian democracy activist. She led a movement of women-only protests in Burundi at a time when protestors were being brutally repressed.