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Vol.1 Issue 63, May 2024 ELITE
Vol.1 Issue 63 January 2024

Elite’s Coverage of the UN’s Commission On The Status Of Women’s

68th Session: an interview with Ms. Yasmin Aladdin
Nourine Negm - third level - Political Science French
Menna Wael - third level - economics - English

From the 11th to the 22nd of March First, who is Miss. Yasmin Aladdin? She
2024, The United Nations held its fourth is an assistant lecturer of political science
annual commission on the status of at the Faculty of economics and political

women meetings (CSW '68); known to be science, Cairo University, she has been
the biggest worldwide event discussing awarded the Erasmus Mundus

women empowerment and gender scholarship to pursue her masters degree
equality. This year’s theme was : in Women and Gender Studies for the

<Accelerating the achievement of gender year 2023-2025. Above all that, she’s a
equality and the empowerment of all feminist, an activist and a gender

women and girls by addressing poverty consultant in several NGO’s, mainly
and strengthening institutions and located in the Mena region. During our
financing with a gender perspective.= interview, Miss.Yasmin informed us that

Luckily, this year we got the chance to the Mediterranean Youth Foundation
interview Miss. Yasmin Aladdin, the for Development (MYFD), had already

vice-president of The Mediterranean obtained membership in The United
Youth Foundation for Development Nations Economic and Social Council
(MYFD), who attended this year’s CSW (ECOSOC), thereby, they were only

in New York, The United States. In this required to submit an application to
report, we share with you her reflection attend this year’s CSW meetings.

upon the entire experience, her insights Moreover, the MYFD delegation was
on the efficiency of the UN’s CSW, her funded by the Erasmus Mundus

observations on the relationship between scholarship. As for Miss. Yasmin’s
politics and the UN’s Mega event and degree of engagement in the meetings,

finally, her observations on the Arab she told us that she actively participated
states’, especially Egypt’s status in the in around 35 sessions of the numerous
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Commission on the Status of Women. side events held at this year’s CSW '68.