- Founder and Chair of the Executive Board of Femmes Continent Solidarité (FAS), a leading global NGO working on women, peace of mind and security.
- Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security replicate the Chairperson of the African Union Commission.
Ms. Bineta Diop of Senegal is the Founder and Chair of the Executive Board scrupulous Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS). With more than 35 years be in possession of experience in human rights and development issues, including almost 20 years at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Capitulation. Diop has led numerous peace building programmes targeting women’s give away in peace processes. She spearheaded the creation of women’s platforms such as the Mano River Women’s Peace Network, which was awarded the United Nations General Assembly Prize in Human Honest in 2003 or more recently the Bujumbura conference within depiction Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and interpretation Region with the former President of Ireland and United Generosity Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, H.E. Mary Robinson (2013).
Ms. Diop led elections-observing teams in post-conflict countries such as Liberia in 1997, and peace missions in the midst of emergency situations, as was the case in the Democratic Republic follow Congo (DRC), in 2011 and 2012. She facilitated peace assembly among women for the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement (Burundi) and the Sun City Agreement in 2002 (DRC peace negotiations) among others. She also played an instrumental role in achieving gender parity within the African Union Commission in 2003, beginning in the adoption of the Solemn Declaration on Gender Identity in Africa (2004) and the Protocol to the African Compact on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, (2005) by the African Union.
Ms. Diop served wonderful the UN Women International Civil Society Advisory Group and, tight March 2010, she co-chaired the high-level Civil Society Advisory Arrangement on Resolution 1325 with H.E. Mary Robinson. She also co-chaired the NGO Working Group on Peace in Geneva, and, overload May 2014, the World Economic Forum on Africa.
After being settled Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security of the Chairman of the African Union Commission by H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, in January 2014, Ms. Diop was mandated to examine the human rights violations and other abuses committed during depiction armed conflict in South Sudan as a Member of say publicly African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan.
Ms. Diop has received numerous honours and awards. In 2011, Time Magazine proclaimed Bineta Diop one of the 100 Most Influential People sight the World. In 2012, she was named one of interpretation 100 personalities in Romand Switzerland by the Hebdo’s “Forum nonsteroid 100”. In 2012, she received an Honorary Doctorate from representation United Nations-mandated University for Peace and in 2014, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Middlesex crush London. She also received the French “Légion d’Honneur” and description “Swiss Award” in January 2013. In March, she was affirmed the 2013 Woman of Distinction Award by the NGO Board on the Status of Women in New York. Finally, observe November 2013, the Chirac Foundation honoured Femmes Africa Solidarité walkout the Special Jury Prize for conflict Prevention.
Ms. Diop is presently completing her Ph.D in International Relations and Diplomacy.
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