Media Appearances

Zohra Rasekh
Speaking Events and Other Activities

Speaking engagements:

• The White House
• U.S. State Department
• U.S. Congress, Committee on International Relations
• Senate Appropriations Committee, Sub-Committee on Foreign Operations
• The World Bank
• UNICEF
• The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• United Nations Development Program
• United Nations Association (San Diego chapter)
• Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Public Health Association
• Kennedy School of Ethics, Georgetown University
• Harvard University, School of Government
• Georgetown University Law Center
• Georgetown University Medical School
• George Washington University, Medical School
• George Wasghington University Hospital
• Calgary University
• Trinity College
• Boston University
• Columbia University
• John Hopkins University School of Public Health
• John Hopkins University Women’s Study Center
• Connecticut University Women’s Center
• Population Action International
• Case Western Reserve University Medical School, Cleveland, OH
• Huron Hospital, Cleveland, OH
• The Republican Newspaper
• University of Alberta, in Edmonton
• Women for Women Afghanistan, Canada
• Congressional Human Rights Caucus
• Vital Voices
• White House, women initiates office
• Association of Ismailia women in Canada
• Women for Women Afghanistan, Canada
• Association of Immigrant Women of Canada, Keynote Speaker
• Embassy of Canada, Washington, DC
• U.S. Senate Briefing
• U.S. Congressional briefing
• Harvard University, School of Public Health
• Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, division of Women's Studies
• The Association of Women Judges in Washington, DC
• Women for Women Afghanistan (W4W), New York
• Inter Action
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Alliance
• Amnesty International
• Feminist Majority (Hollywood Event)
  
  
• Rome: Invited by the former King of Afghanistan, Zaher Shah, to attend the Afghan Loya Jirga Peace initiative meeting in Rome, November 1999. She was asked to submit a proposal to the Afghan Loya Jirga Preparatory Meeting Committee regarding the role of Afghan women in the Peace Initiative.
  
  
• Brussels: Invited by the Belgium government to participate as an adviser in a roundtable "Building Women's Leadership in the Reconstruction of Afghanistan". She played a key role in formulating the Brussels Action Plan, identifying critical actions to ensure that Afghan women are central in the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan.
  
  
• Tokyo: Invited as a keynote speaker in the workshop “Post-Conflict reconstruction Assistance and Gender” by the United Nations Development Program and Japan International Cooperation Assistance (JICA).
  
  Also briefed the JICA members about the needs and realities of women and children in Afghanistan post-Taliban.
  
  
• Canada:
  • Keynote Speaker at the Annual Human Rights Conference, University of Alberta in Edmonton.
  • Keynote Speaker, Women for Women Afghanistan, Vancouver chapter
  • Keynote Speaker, Women for Women Afghanistan, Calgary chapter
    
    
• Kabul: Invited by the interim government authorities to provide assistance and advise the ministries of health, higher education and women’s affairs.

Major Media Interviews:

• Broadcast: ABC, BBC, CNN, NBC News, NBC Dateline, CBS, NPR (Diane Reim, Everything Considered), and many other radio and TV shows (US and international);
  
  
• Print Media: The Washington Post, The New York Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, and many other international and US print media.