Name: Aida Abu-Ras
Position: Regional Gender Advisor
Organisation: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Brief Profile:
- From Jordan
- Working in Peace Women Across the Globe, as Regional representative for the Middle East
- Now based in Qatar
- Having been working in the area of human rights and gender for the past ten years
- Co-founder and board member of an NGO defending the rights of women migrant workers
- Currently working as regional gender advisor at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA) in Beirut