A Woman Even Here: Protecting Arab Women's Rights is a Key to Mitigating Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

Jun 6, 2019 | Rudroneel Gosh
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A pertinent session at the ongoing Women Deliver Conference 2019 focussed on the challenges faced by women in the Arab world. Hosted by UNFPA Arab States Regional Office, the session delved into the double discrimination that women in the Arab world often have to put up with. The reason for this double discrimination is the fact that much of the Middle East and North Africa region is in conflict. And conflict situations are particularly hard on women given that they engender shortages of everything from security to food supplies.