Engaging Afghan Women and Civil Society in U.S. Policymaking

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.

Participants

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