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Mahnaz Afkhami Testifies at U.S. Senate Hearing “Women and the Arab Spring”

Wed, Nov 2, 2011

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U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women’s Issues Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

Presiding:

Senators Boxer and Casey

Date:

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Time:

02:30 PM

Location:

419 Senate Dirksen Office Building

Panel one

    The Honorable Melanne Verveer
    Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues
    United States Department of State
    Washington, DC
    Dr. Tamara Wittes
    Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs and Deputy Special Coordinator for Middle East Transitions
    United States Department of State
    Washington, DC

Panel two

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About Mahnaz Afkhami

A lifetime advocate for the rights of women, Mahnaz Afkhami works with activists across the world, especially in Muslim majority societies, to help women become leaders. She is Founder and President of Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP), Executive Director of Foundation for Iranian Studies...more

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Quotables – Muslim Women

"The most taxing contradiction [Muslim women] face casts the demands of living in the contemporary world against the requirements of tradition as determined and advanced by the modern Islamist world view. At the center of this conflict is the dilemna of Muslim women’s human rights – whether Muslim women have rights because they are human beings, or whether they have rights because they are Muslim" - Faith and Freedom: Introduction

"To the extent that Islam, defined and interpreted by traditionalist "Muslim" men, is allowed to determine the context and contour of the debate on women's rights, women will be on the losing side of the debate because the conclusion is already contained in the premise and reflected in the process. This is the heart of the moral tragedy of Muslim societies in our time." - Gender Apartheid, Cultural Relativism, and Women's Human Rights

“Islam is not the problem. Rather it is the misuse of Islam by interpreting it to fit the needs of the partriarchal order - the powers that be - and the privileges that one gender has held over the other.” - How are women working to eliminate violence against women in Muslim-majority societies?

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