Philippines Center for Islam and Democracy
in partnership with
Muslim Youth Movement
presence
"Islam and Human Rights" lecture series
in College of Law, Western Mindanao State Uniersity
Feb. 09, 2011
Lecturers:
1) Ms. Lily Zakiyah Munir is the founder and director of Center for Pesantren (Islamic Boarding School) and Democracy Studies or CEPDES, an NGO dedicated to promoting democracy and human rights education amongst Muslim grassroots communities in Indonesia .She is a national board member of Muslimat Nahdlatul Ulama (MNU), the women's wing of NU, a mass-based organization with membership of about 40 million Indonesians. She is also a researcher focusing on the issues of Islam, politics, and gender.
Her academic background includes training as medical anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam , management at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, III., research fellow on Islam and Human Rights at Emory University Faculty of Law in Atlanta and visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore . She was a UNDP consultant on Gender Mainstreaming Program with the Ministry of Women's Empowerment in Indonesia.
Through Muslimat NU and CEPDES, she has been involved in civic and political education for Muslim women in Indonesia in the elections of 1999 and 2004. She also served recently as the only woman and only Muslim on the Monitoring Commission for the Afghan Elections.
