BEIRUT: Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour praised Wednesday the election of
Lebanese Dr. Nahla Haidar to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The National News Agency said Mansour was
informed by Lebanon’s Ambassador to the U.N. Nawwaf Salam. Haidar has served as
Social Affairs Officer at the U.N.’s Economic and Social Development Commission
in West Africa (ESCWA). Born in Beirut in 1951, she attended Saint Joseph
University in Beirut before obtaining a graduate degree in law from
Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, France. In ESCWA she worked on community
development projects throughout the region. She has served as the deputy focal
point for the advancement of women – U.N. Office in Geneva. She has numerous
publications in the field of discrimination against women and the advancement
of human rights. CEDAW is an expert body of the U.N. established in 1982 to
monitor the progress for women in member countries and is composed of 23
experts on women’s issues worldwide.
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