Dr Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

August 18, 2010 By admin

Dr Noeleen Heyzer is the first woman to head the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). She was the first executive director from the global south to head the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the leading operational agency within the United Nations to promote women’s rights and gender equality.


Under her leadership, UNIFEM almost tripled its resources and successfully advocated to put issues affecting women high on the agenda of the UN system.

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Filed Under: Women in Peace-building Tagged With: Dr Noeleen Heyzer, ESCAP, Panel Sessions, Women in Peace

Sophie Désouliéres, International Crisis Group

August 3, 2010 By admin

Sophie Désouliéres joined International Crisis Group as a South Asia analyst in 2008 and has since focused on conflict induced displacement in Pakistan and cross-border population movements within the region.

Prior to this, Désouliéres conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the UK analysing how solidarity networks intervene in Afghans’ cross-border mobility and international migration. She holds a Master II in Social Anthropology from MMSH (Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme) in Aix-en-Provence and a BA in International Development from McGill University.

Filed Under: Women in Peace-building Tagged With: Conference highlights, International Crisis Group, Panel Sessions, Sophie Désouliéres

Dr Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Executive Director UN-HABITAT

August 3, 2010 By admin

Anna Tibaijuka is the first African woman elected by the UN General Assembly as Under-Secretary-General of a United Nations programme. She is currently serving a second, four-year term as Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT.

Born to smallholder banana-coffee farmers in Muleba, Tanzania, Kajumulo was educated at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in Uppsala. In October 2006, she was appointed Director-General of the United Nations Offices in Nairobi (UNON), the only UN headquarters in Africa and the developing world. [Read more...]

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