Ep. 6: Thinking out Loud with Zineb Touimi-Benjelloun
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0.00 Intro
0.57 Who is Zineb Touimi-Benjelloun
1.38 Zineb’s journey
13:14 Women’s liberation through laws
16:00 What unifies Arab women
18:54 How to get to the UN
26:43 Gender inequality in the workplace and the pay gap
31.52 Better representation of women in peace building
Zineb Touimi-Benjelloun is the Former UN Resident Coordinator to Kuwait and Albania. She served at the United Nations Fund for Women, UNIFEM, (now part of UN Women) as the organization’s Representative in Morocco and Regional Program Director for North Africa. Prior to this, she was the Program Coordinator for UNIFEM’s North Africa Office and the UNIFEM Gender Advisor for Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
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Music by Marc Codsi.
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