International Women’s Commission

For a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace

 Membership in the International Women’s Commission for an Israeli-Palestinian peace is on an individual and voluntary basis.  Commission members do not represent other organizations they are affiliated with.

Chair

Inés Alberdi

UNIFEM Executive Director

Honorary co-chairs

President Tarja Halonen, Finland

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia

Prime Minister Helen Clark, New Zealand

Honorary Members

Micheline Calmy-Rey - Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (Switzerland)

Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir - Minister for Foreign Affairs (Iceland)

Noeleen Heyzer - Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

Carin Jämtin – former Minister for International Development Cooperation (Sweden)

Laurette Onkelinx – Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health (Belgium)

Leire Pajín Iraola - State Secretary for International Cooperation (Spain)

Patrizia Sentinelli – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (Italy)

Gloria Steinem – activist and writer (USA)

Jody Williams – founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (USA)

Palestinian Members

Mayada Abbasi – Palestinian Ambassador, Brazil

Wafa' Abdel-Rahman – Executive Director, Filastiniyat Organization

Tahani Abu-Daqqa – Women’s Activist and Community Development Advisor

Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas – Executive Director, Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counselling

Hanan Ashrawi – Palestinian Legislative Council Member and President of Miftah

Annan Attiri - Director, Nablus Governorate

Naila Ayesh – Executive Director, Women's Affairs Center, Gaza

Samia Bamieh – Ambassador, Former Head of European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Palestinian Territory

Siham Barghouthi – Chairperson, Society of Women's Action

Hania Bitar – Director, Pyalara (a youth organization)

Nebras Bseisso – Director, Palestinian Banking Association, Gaza

Leila Chahid – Palestinian Ambassador, Belgium

Samar Hawash – Nablus Coordinator, Palestinian Working Women Society for Development

Salwa Hdeib – Deputy Minister, Ministry of Women’s Affairs

Lama Hourani – Gaza Coordinator, Palestinian Working Women Society for Development

May Kaileh – Palestinian Ambassador, Chile

Zahira Kamal – Director, Women’s Center for Studies and Research; Former Minister of Women’s Affairs

Amal Khreisheh – Executive Director, Palestinian Working Women Society for Development

Israeli Members

Sarai Aharoni - Feminist Activist at Isha l'isha-Haifa Feminist Centre; PhD Candidate in Gender Studies, Bar-Ilan University

Colette Avital - Member of Knesset, Labor Party; Deputy Speaker of the Knesset;

Naomi Chazan - Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (emerita) and Head of the School of Government and Society, the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo; Former Member of Knesset, Meretz Party; Former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset

Naava Eisin - Director, The Archives of Jewish Education, Tel Aviv University; Machsom Watch member

Roberta Fahn Schoffman - CEO, MindSet Strategic Consulting

Zehava Galon – Member of Knesset, Meretz-Yahad Party; Chairperson, Knesset Committee on the Trafficking in Women

Galia Golan – Professor of Government, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (emerita) and Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlyia; Peace Now Executive Board; Meretz – Yahad Executive Board

Nurit Haghagh - Director, Hakeshet Hademocratit Hamizrahit Movement

Shlomit Lir – Editor of a Mizrahi Feminist Anthology; computer engineer; PhD candidate Tel Aviv University

Eti Livni – Former Member of Knesset, Shinui Party; Former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset

Talia Livni - Advocate, President of Na'amat Israel – Movement of Working Women and Volunteers

Molly Malekar - Director, Bat Shalom of the Jerusalem Link organization

Ghaida Rinaiwi -  UNDP/UNOPS Consultant for the project in Israel "Future Vision-Palestinians in Israel", board member of women against violence, Mobadara-Arab Center for Emergency and Siyasat Center for law&Policy

Anat Saragusti - CEO of Agenda - Israeli Center for Strategic Communication, a non-profit organization. A journalist, film maker, photographer and a lawyer. A board member of ACRI - Association for Civil Rights, of Itach- Women Lawyers for Social Justice

Shahira Shalabi - Feminist activist, organizational consultant at Shatil the NIF Empowerment Training Center for Social Change Organization, member of Shatil's Conflict Transformation and management Center

Romy Shapira - Peace and human rights activist, former Israeli coordinator of the IWC, group facilitator, board member of Bat Shalom.

Aida Touma-Sliman – Executive Director, Women Against Violence organization

 International Members

Feride Acar - former Chair (2003-2005) and member (1997-2005) of the UN CEDAW Committee (Turkey)

Phoebe Asiyo – former Member of Parliament and Chair of the Women’s Political Caucus (Kenya)

Sylvia Borren – former Executive Director, Oxfam Novib (Netherlands)

Frene Ginwala - former Speaker of the National Assembly (South Africa)

Ana Gomes – Member, European Parliament (Portugal)

Antigoni Karali-Dimitriadi - Vice President Socialist International Women (Greece)

Karen Koning AbuZayd – Commissioner General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

Luisa Morgantini - Vice President, European Parliament (Italy)

Jessica Neuwirth – President, Equality Now (USA)

Simone Susskind - President, Actions in the Mediterranean (Belgium)