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Sabah Al Hallak

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Known For: Member of the Syrian Women League
Country: Syria

About

Sabah Alhalak has been a member of the Syrian Women League since 1985. Ms. Alhalak is a well known women’s activist who has participated in several campaigns. These campaigns have covered issues such as women’s equal rights in divorce and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women’s (CEDAW) reservations withdrawal. Ms. Alhalak was a Women Coordinator for the Syrian Commission for Family Affaires from 2004 to 2006. She is a certified gender trainer and has been involved in many training workshops (TOT) across the Arab region. She is also a UNIFEM certified TOT on women’s political participation.

Ms. Alhalak is an active advocate for CEDAW implementation in Syria in addition to participating in preparing Syria’s primary report on CEDAW. She also attended the CEDAW Committee in NY in 2007. Ms. Alhalak was the coordinator for preparing the Beijing +10 report. She has participated in several studies on women’s issues such as women and Parliament in Syria and Syrian Family Law and women.

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