Ligestillingsudvalget 2014-15 (1. samling)
LIU Alm.del Bilag 44
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Middle East / Northern Africa delegation: meeting with UPN, URU and LIU - May 26, 2015
Amel Fahmy, Egypt
Amel Fahmy is the co-founder of the website HarassMap to document sexual harassment in Egypt and the Managing
director of Tadween, a Women Research Center. Amel holds a master in Gender Studies and Management of NGOs
and she conducts research to understand the social factors that underline or drive GBV in different communities.
During her work at the WHO headquarter in Geneva and later at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Amel
worked with hundreds of women from all over the world to examine and address different GBV issues. At the TEDx
Cairo in 2014 Amel spoke about violence against women.
http://harassmap.org/en/
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Sexual-harassment-hammering-dow
Dr. Azza Kamel, Egypt
Dr. Azza Kamel holds a Ph.D. in Education and is the director of Appropriate Communication Techniques for
Development (ACT). She is a founding member of both the New Women Research and Study Center in Giza and of
the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. Over the past 18 years, Azza has worked as a women activist to fight
violence against women and advocate for equality between men and women. As a social development and gender
expert she works with projects in the social development field and with building capacity of women for their political
participation.
Azza is part of the Who Is She i Eg pt , a o li e data ase of fe ale e perts, ela orated i
cooperation with KVINFO
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and funded by the DAPP initiative.
http://whoisshe.wmf.org.eg/expert-profile/azza-kamel
http://www.wmf.org.eg/?lang=en
Mozn Hassan, Egypt
MA in International Human Rights Law Mozn Hassan is the founder and Executive Director of Nazra for Feminist
Studies in Cairo - a youth initiative to integrate gender and feminism into Egyptian society. In 2013, Mozn received
the inaugural Charlotte Bunch Human Rights Defender Award. Her research interests range from combating violence
against women, history of feminism in Egypt, to early child marriage. Currently Mozn is a consultant for Women
Human Rights Defenders MENA Coalition, a member of the International Planning Committee for AWID Forum 2016
as well as a board member of the Global Fund for Women. She also served as Egypt advisor with the Global Fund for
Women and as a consultant with the UNDP project "Combating Female Genital Mutilation".
http://nazra.org/en
http://www.icanpeacework.org/mozn-hassan-receives-charlotte-bunch-human-rights-defender-award/
Fatima Outaleb, Morocco
Fatima Outaleb
is a fou di g e er a d oard e er of the wo e ’s orga izatio l’U io A tio Fé i i e
(UAF) in Rabat. She has 25 years of experience of working with gender based violence (GBV), gender mainstreaming,
wome
’s politi al parti ipatio
and empowerment at a national and regional level within both UAF and international
organizations, such as training of female members of political parties in Tunisia. Fatima has served as a gender
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KVINFO is the Danish Centre for Gender, Equality and Diversity, founded in 1979. KVINFO has worked as a DAPP partner since 2006.