Iranian Women to Attend Baku Subregional Conference

May 11, 1998 - 0:0
TEHRAN A women delegation comprising of representatives from Women Participation Affairs Center, Foreign Ministry and a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) is to leave here for Azerbaijan to attend a subregional conference on women due to open in Baku on May 18. The Iranian delegation comprising Dr. Touba Kermani, Afsaneh Nadi-Pour and Azam A'zimi Rad are to take part in the conference: Women Rights are Human Rights; Women in Conflict. Participants in the two-day conference are from Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. In their working sessions the participants are to deal with Women's role in preventing conflict, violence against women, refugees and displaced women.