Roundtable on Women’s Human Rights and U.S. Interests
Director: Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Chairs: Adele Simmons and Jack Snyder
April 1, 1999 - June 30, 2003
Meetings
General Meeting
Iraq's Reconstruction: The Challenges Ahead
Presider: Isobel Coleman
Speakers: Raja Habib Khuzai, Ambassador, Interim Iraqi Assembly
Ala Talabani, Women for a Free Iraq
Robin L. Raphel, US Dept. of State
November 19, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
Islam and Women's Participation
Presiders: Jennifer Seymour Whitaker, Hunt Alternatives
Swanee Hunt
Speaker: Rina Amiri, Hunt Alternatives
January 31, 2002
Roundtable Meeting
The Participation of Afghan Women in the Transitional Process in Afghanistan
Presider: Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Speakers: Sima Wali, Refugee Women in Development
Donald K. Steinberg, U. S. State Department
December 14, 2001
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Study Group Meeting
Women and Politics in Russia
Presider: Colette Shulman
Speakers: Ananstasis Posadskaya, Open Society Institute
Marina Pislakova, Moscow Women’s Crisis Center
September 18, 2001
Contact: Sandra Enimil 212-434-9670 or senimil@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
U.S. Foreign Aid to Women's Reproductive Health: The Bush Executive Gag Order
Speaker: Nita M. Lowey, U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY)
June 18, 2001
Contact: Sandra Enimil 212-434-9670 or senimil@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Women Waging Peace and Inclusive Security
Panelist: Jennifer Seymour Whitaker, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Speakers: Christina Posa, Attorney, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; Judicial Clerk, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Marina Skrabalo, Women Waging Peace
Swanee Hunt, Harvard University
May 11, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
Women and Globalization
Presider: Judith Bruce, Population Council
Speakers: Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts
David R. Malpass, Bear Sterns
June 13, 2000
Roundtable Meeting
The Political Situation in Croatia Today: The Perspectives of Women Parliamentarians
Speakers: Dr. Carmen Ess, International Visitors Program, U.S. Department of State
Ingrid Anticevic, President of the Legislative Committee, the House of Representatives of the Croatian Parliament
Ljubica Lalic, Representative in the Croatian Parliament, Parliamentry Committee for Immunity
Milanka Opacic, President
Darinka Orel, Representative of the Croatian Parliament
Gordana Sobol, Member of Parliament
May 25, 2000
Roundtable Meeting
Where Women’s Rights and Roles Have the Most Direct Impact on U.S. Interests
Panelists: Adele Simmons, Center for International Studies, University of Chicago
Jack Snyder, Women’s Human Rights Project, Columbia University
Speakers: Martha Finnemore, George Washington University, Foreign Affairs
Jane Jacquette, Occidental College
Regan Ralph, Women’s Human Rights Project of Human Rights Watch
Fareed Zakaria, Managing Editor
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
January 7, 2000
Contact: Veronique Aubert, 212-434-9654 or vaubert@cfr.org.
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Roundtable Meeting
Women in the 1990s
Speakers: Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University
Steven Van Evera, MIT
Ronald Inglehart, University of Michigan
Adrienne Germaine, International Women's Health Coalition
Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women's Global Leadership
Lisa Anderson, Columbia University
September 22, 1999
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Saudi Arabia on the Edge
American Force
The Struggle for Egypt
