Please, we know you had a great panel, but this will be another great panel, i promise. [applause] can we get a room quiet please, so we can focus on a very important discussion coming from iran and afghanistan. I am a very proud member of vital voices. I am from iraq. Have the pleasure of being in conversation with amazing women from iran and afghanistan. I will start the one on my left, the iranian american actress and activist sepideh moafi. We are living in an important moment in the womens movement. The agenda of what needs to happen for women in certain countries are being set by the women of the countries, sending the messages to the International Community that we want you to support us. That is the reverse of the agenda that has happened, it has good and bad, that has happened for many years. We are now in a new framework of the womens movement. No better example to talk about this then what we are talking about in todays panel, which is and gender apartheid, a movement and ca
Put the words israel and apartheid in the same sentence, and you are stepping into a political minefield. Write a un report and accuse israel of systematically implementing apartheid policies, well, you can be sure there will be a diplomatic explosion. My guest today, rima khalaf, did just that, and promptly resigned from her un post, when the Secretary General refused to accept her work. Her motives have been widely questioned. So lets ask her what were they . Rima khalaf, welcome to hardtalk. Pleasure to be here. Now that the dust has settled for a few weeks on this episode, of you, the report you commissioned on israel, and apartheid, you have had some time to reflect on it all. Do you have regrets about the way you handled it . No, actually, not at all. First let me explain that i did not commission the report because i wanted to commission a report. Escwa, or the un economic and social commission for western asia, is an intergovernmental body. We are an intergovernmental agency. A
Put the words israel and apartheid in the same sentence, and you are stepping into a political minefield. Write a un report and accuse israel of systematically implementing apartheid policies, well, you can be sure there will be a diplomatic explosion. My guest today, rima khalaf, did just that, and promptly resigned from her un post, when the Secretary General refused to accept her work. Her motives have been widely questioned. So lets ask her what were they . Rima khalaf, welcome to hardtalk. Pleasure to be here. Now that the dust has settled for a few weeks on this episode, of you, the report you commissioned on israel, and apartheid, you have had some time to reflect on it all. Do you have regrets about the way you handled it . No, actually, not at all. First let me explain that i did not commission the report because i wanted to commission a report. Escwa, or the un economic and social commission for western asia, is an intergovernmental body. We are an intergovernmental agency. A
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