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Putting Gender in our Work: Alia El-Yassir at TEDxDeusto

1,385 views · Published 29 October 2012 · 19:33 · Indexed 23 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Alia El-Yassir is Head of Office of UN WOMEN in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) were she started working in 1997 managing a number of governance projects. Before joining UN WOMEN, she worked briefly with the UNDP Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People on a preparatory programme for the Fourth World Conference on Women. She is a member of the General Assembly of Al-Haq (independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization) and a Board Member of the Palestinian women's NGO, Rawdat El-Zuhour, based in Jerusalem. She has also co-authored a children's science book and co-written a children's play. Alia´s talk reflects on the importance of including gender in humanitarian action; and she tells us that in order to humanize the world, we have to genderize the world.

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