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Contributors | Linda Tarr-Whelan

Linda Tarr-Whelan is a Demos distinguished senior fellow and author of Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World (2009, 2011). She is the former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women and deputy assistant to President Jimmy Carter for women’s concerns.

Supporting Women’s Rights in the Middle East Begins at Home

By Linda Tarr-Whelan | Dec 06, 2011

This December 10, as the world marks International Human Rights Day, it is appropriate to worry about the future of the courageous women of the Arab Spring who stood tall against tyranny to achieve freedom and democracy. Women were at the heart of the upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa.

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