Fatemah Khafagy

Professions: Consultant, Researcher

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Women's Rights Consultant

Fatemah Khafagy

1949

CONTACT INFORMATION / PRIVATE


Fatema.khafagy@gmail.com

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


Alliance for Arab Women

Board of Directors

28 Adly Street, Downtown

Cairo

Egypt

+2 23939899

+2 23939899

aaw@link.net

www.aaw.org

Education


PhD, Development Planning, University of London, 1984.

MBA, Business Administration, American University in Cairo, 1977.

BA, Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 1968.

languages


Arabic

English

French

COMPETENCES


Children's Rights

Human Rights

Women's Rights

WORK HISTORY


Member, Board of Directors, Alliance for Arab Women, 1987-Present.

Policy Expert, Euromed Role of Women in Economic Life Program, 2005-2007.

Director, Office of Women's Complaints, National Council for Women, 2000-2002.

Director, Women and Development Program, UNICEF, 1997-2001.

Honorary office and memberships


Member, Board of Directors, Alliance for Arab Women.

Member, Euro Med Civic Forum.

Member, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Advisory Group.

Productions and Works


Monitoring the Convention on all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Research Study, the Euromed Role of Women in Economic Life Program: A Knowledge Base for Action in the South Mediterranean, 2008.

Civil Society in Egypt: External and Internal Obstacles, with Amany Kandil and Leila El Baradel, In: Egypt Human Development Report 2008:

Egypt’s Social Contract: The Role of Civil Society (Chapter 4), p. 87-110, United Nations Development Program ( UNDP ) and the Institute of National Planning, Egypt, 2008.

Egyptian Women at Crossroads, Common Ground News Service, 26 August 2008.

AWARDS


University of Kuwait Award, 2008.

Ministry of Culture Award, Egypt, 2006.

Population Council Award for Research on Egyptian Labor Migration, 1990.