On July 28, USIP, the Atlantic Council, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, the Sisterhood is Global Institute and the U.S Department of State joined to launch the U.S.-Afghan Consultative Mechanism.
Antony J. Blinken, keynote remarks
U.S. Secretary of State
Rina Amiri, moderator
U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights
Lise Grande, welcoming remarks
President and CEO, U.S. Institute of Peace
Palwasha Hassan
Senior Fellow, Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Georgetown University;
Founding Member, Afghan Women’s Network
Naheed Sarabi
Visiting Fellow, Center for Sustainable Development, the Brookings Institution
Asila Wardak
Senior Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Founding Member of the Women’s Forum on Afghanistan
For more information about this event, please visit: https://www.usip.org/events/engaging-afghan-women-and-civil-society-us-policymaking
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