Official Press Release
The Hague, 23rd March 2012
The Hague, 29th of March, 10.30-13.30.
Discussion Forum with Dr. Soukeina Bouraoui from Tunisia in Cooperation with the Canadian Embassy to the Netherlands
Female Leadership and Arab Spring one Year on – From Tunisia to Libya
During the time of the Revolution it looked like gender relations across the MENA-Region were being transformed. However elections in a number of countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen) demonstrated that the achievements of women’s rights and female leadership require continued national and international support to be institutionalized.
How can the international community and gender and development organisations contribute to this transformation process?
The discussion forum takes place on Thursday, the 29th of March, 2012 at 10.30 at Gender Concerns International (Raamweg 21-22, 2696 HL The Hague).
Dr. Soukeina Bouraoui (Tunisia), Executive Director of the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR)
H.E. Ben Becher (Netherlands), Ambassador of Tunisia to the Netherlands
Ann Flanagan Whalen (Netherlands), Counsellor of the Embassy of Canada to the Netherlands
Sabra Bano (Netherlands), Director Gender Concerns International
Dr. Soukeina Bouraoui is a prominent Tunisian lawyer and women’s rights activist. She is also the director of CAWTAR, Center of Arab Women for Training and Research, a research and study center relating to gender and the status of women throughout the Arab world.
Dutch Parliamentarians, members of Embassies based in the Netherlands and partners from Gender Concerns International will also attend the discussion forum.
Gender Concerns International supports women worldwide in claiming their role as “agents of change”. Currently, the organization is active in Afghanistan, Pakistan, South-Sudan and the MENA-region (Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Yemen and Libya).
To attend the discussion forum, please email to katharina@genderconcerns.org or phone +31 (0) 70 444 50 82.