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Taking Stock of Women in Media Globally

June 18, 2015

This article was originally published by Women’s Media Center Among the goals set by the Platform for Action adopted at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing 20 years ago was a section on women and media: ...read more

Parliamentary Track 1 ½ Diplomacy: An Effective Tool for Peace-making

June 7, 2015

Preventive diplomacy traditionally involves Track I of governments and inter-governmental organisations in diplomatic negotiations to prevent and end armed conflict. Track II are confidence-building contributions of ...read more

World Health Assembly Backs Calls to Strengthen Clean Air SDGs

May 28, 2015

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published by Pass Blue Negotiations are entering the last stages of formulating the Sustainable Development Goals. For over a year, governments, the United Nations system, ...read more

The Still Hidden Face of Eve – Women’s Unpaid Labor and Economic Inequality

April 29, 2015

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published by Women’s Media Center By any economic yardstick—wages, lifetime income, land, financial assets, retirement, social security, inheritance—women globally lag far ...read more

Shazia Rafi remembers US Congresswoman Bella Abzug of New York, who was so instrumental in organizing women leaders globally.

March 26, 2015

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published by the Women’s Media Center I scrambled through my storage all morning looking for my Bella hat from Beijing 1995. It was 20 years later, and I was running late for ...read more

A case for Gandhara

February 19, 2015

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published on Dawn.com GROWING up in Lahore I wondered about the gap in my history textbook between the end of Indus Valley civilisation circa 1500 BC and the invasion of Sindh by ...read more

Essential steps

January 18, 2015

Pakistan’s civilian government and military have come together to fight terrorism with an integrated National Action Plan (NAP). Lessons learned from other countries’ wars against similar totalitarian movements can ...read more

Ich bin ein Berliner – Agreement needed on new standards to regulate arms trade

November 29, 2014

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published in the Khaleej Times The signatory countries of the Arms Trade Treaty [ATT] will huddle together in Berlin to prepare for the ATT’s entry into force on December 24, ...read more

The World Agrees: No Right to Bear Unregulated Arms

September 25, 2014

This article by Shazia Rafi was originally published by Women’s Media Center She stands behind him like a protective angel, not looking at the camera, a little lost in the group of nuclear disarmament negotiators, ...read more

Shazia Z. Rafi on GCTV with Bill Miller

May 30, 2013

Shazia Z. Rafi, a Pakistani National, is the Former Secretary- General of the Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA). Ms. Rafi, discusses Peace and Democracy, International Law and Human Rights, especially in relation to ...read more

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Sundays With Seema: Shazia Rafi

March 1, 2023

For episode #95 of Sundays with SEEMA, Seema Kumar, sits down with Shazia Rafi, president and convenor of AirQualityAsia (AQA) and managing director of Global Parliamentary ...read more
Ecofeminists Lead the Way

August 12, 2021

Heat waves, wildfires, floods, severe drought, and a global pandemic are threatening our lives, deluging our health systems, and bringing the global economy to a near halt. ...read more
Democracy and the United Nations: Implications for Multilateral Action in a World in Crisis

July 6, 2021

“UN Democracy Building in Conflict-Affected Countries: The Evolution of ‘Resilience-seeking’” Dr. Timothy Sisk | University of Denver: Josef Korbel School of ...read more
Lecture: From Population Control to Reproductive Health

October 22, 2020

As part of their course on “Harnessing Heterogeneity, Community and Individuality in Human Development for Sustainable Innovation”, Shazia Rafi delivered a guest ...read more
Parliamentary Role in Clean Air SDGs 2030: From Writing the Words to Getting the Results

June 17, 2019

By Shazia Z. Rafi, President and Convenor of AirQualityAsia, consultant specializing in parliamentary diplomacy related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals As we ...read more

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