Advancing the Rights of Rural Women: Challenges and Best Practices

The Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service’s Institute for Women and Girls will host a parallel event for the the sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

Students will be invited to submit papers that discuss a plan to disseminate ideas on how to effectively use technology.

Presentations and panel discussions will focus on the uses of technology to empower rural women around the world.

Presenters
Barbara Adams
Barbara is chair of the Executive Board of the Global Policy Forum. She was trained in economics in the U.K. and has served as deputy coordinator of the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service. She was chief of strategic partnerships and communications for the UN Development Fund for Women. Most recently she has been a member of the Coordinating Committee of Social Watch.

Araba Sey
Araba is a principal research fellow at UNU-CS. She studies the uses and perceived impacts of public access computing in a variety of national contexts. Her other research interests include industry and user appropriation of mobile phones in low and middle-income countries, and decent work and micro-entrepreneurship in the mobile phone industry.

Sorosh Roshan
Sorosh is the founder of the International Health Awareness Network (IHAN). IHAN is a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council and the Department of Public Information of the UN. IHAN’s work focuses on the health needs of women and children.