Heidi Basch-Harod is the executive director of Women’s Voices Now(WVN), a nonprofit organization that utilizes social issue-based and impact-oriented digital media to advance the rights of women and girls, and the founding editor of WVN’s digital publication, The WVoice. WVN holds special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). She brings her experience in international human rights advocacy from her work with Tibetan Nuns Project, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress, and the Palestine-Israel Journal.
Women were a formidable presence in recent political protests but the struggle
for women’s rights against entrenched social norms throughout the Middle East is
ongoing.