Fatma El Mehdi, the Secretary General of the Sahrawi National Union of Women, arrived this week from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria to represent the Pan-African network of women’s associations (WAELE) to attend the 56th Commission on the Status of Women held at the UN (see: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/55sess.htm). This is an historic occasion for Western Sahara as this will be the first time that a Sahrawi representative has attended a women’s international conference at the UN.
You can hear her speak and meet her in person at a brief talk sponsored by The Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY’s Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave @34th St. Rm. 5307.
Friday, March 9th at 6:30 pm
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You can also listen to a brief interview on this morning’s NPR program TheTakeAway
For some background about the conflict in Western Sahara see:http://www.WesternSaharaResourceCenter.blogspot.com
Global Justice, 9/3/2012