Mervat Tallawy
Who Is She
Personal information
Diplomat, Ambassador, Director General
Mervat Tallawy
Contact information / Private
Languages
Arabic
English
Contact information / Work
Arab Women Organization
Education
Competences
Multilateral Diplomacy
Women's Rights
Work history
Jobs:
Director General of Arab Women Organization, 2014 - Present.
Member of the Committee of Fifty for Drafting the new Constitution of Egypt, 2013.
President of the National Council for Women, 2012.
Coordinator General for the 1st Arab Economic Summit in Kuwait, 2009.
Minister of Insurance and Social Affairs in Egypt, 1997 – 1999.
Productions and works:
Participated in the United Nations General Assembly declaration on the protection of women and children in time of armed conflict in 1974.
Participated in drafting the UN convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDAW), were reference to rural women was first introduced by Tallawy in Article 14 of the convention in 1979.
Awards
Distinctions:
The first Arab woman to be Under Secretary General of the United Nations, and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia ESCWA, 2001 – 2007.
The first Secretary General of the National Council for Woman in Egypt January, 2000.
The first woman Ambassador from the diplomatic corps in Egypt.
