Karama joins UN Women Leaders Network
The launch of the UN Women Leaders Network. Photos: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Karama founder and CEO Hibaaq Osman met with leading activists, politicians, business leaders, and academics at the launch of the UN Women Leaders Network.
An initiative between the Government of Iceland, the UN Foundation, and the Council of Women World Leaders, and chaired by Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, it is “the first permanent network of its kind, composed of intergenerational and intersectional women leaders, and its members represent the change needed in the traditional image of leadership today.”
Members of the network include several Nobel laureates, former heads of government, authors, as well as emerging leaders.
Launched on the sidelines of high-level week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA79), it comes at a critical time for global women’s movements, with the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and 25 years of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 both taking place next year.