{"id":2370,"date":"2018-10-18T20:24:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:24:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:24:05","slug":"nadia-murad-speak-sharjah-conference-aimed-boosting-opportunities-menas-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=2370","title":{"rendered":"Nadia Murad To Speak At Sharjah Conference Aimed At Boosting Opportunities For MENA\u2019s Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u2018Investing in the Future\u2019 conference offers an international platform to the region\u2019s youthful voices<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates&#8211;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">BUSINESS WIRE<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\/<a href=\"http:\/\/aetoswire.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s4\">AETOSWire<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">)&#8211; In the run up to one of MENA region\u2019s premier conferences dedicated to addressing development challenges and humanitarian issues, the third edition of \u2018Investing in the Future\u2019 Conference (IIFMENA) slated for October 24-25 in Sharjah, UAE, will be seeing participation of Iraqi Human rights activist and 2018 Nobel peace prize winner, Nadia Murad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">With key partners UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP and NAMA-UN Women, IIFMENA 2018 will shed the spotlight on ways governments, civil society, international organisations, academia, private sector can collaborate to involve the region\u2019s youth more effectively in consultative, policy- and decision-making processes, enabling a more inclusive and participatory approach to tackling challenges and offering practical, scalable solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">It is the first time since the 25-year-old Iraqi human rights activist has received the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize that she will be making a formal public appearance in Sharjah, UAE, at the IIFMENA 2018 being held under the theme, \u2018Youth \u2013 Crisis Challenges and Development Opportunities\u2019, and organised by the UAE-based global humanitarian organisation, The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The young author of\u00a0<i>The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State<\/i>, says: \u201cI am honoured to be part of an initiative that seeks to address the plight of the youth in the MENA region and is bringing together global leaders and experts to combat the youth crises here. I look forward to the opportunity to use this global stage to reach out to millions of young people, just like me, who are victims of war, violence and brutality and give them hope for a better future by sharing my story with them. If I could make it, so can they.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">For more information, please visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%253A%252F%252Fiifmena.org%252F&amp;esheet=51884490&amp;newsitemid=20181017005371&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=http%253A%252F%252Fiifmena.org%252F&amp;index=1&amp;md5=fdf9b0eb21495a605f8cdd4fab1c4204\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">http:\/\/iifmena.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">This press release features multimedia. View the full release here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20181017005371\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20181017005371\/en\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>*Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aetoswire.com\/news\/7212\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s5\"><b>AETOSWire<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Investing in the Future\u2019 conference offers an international platform to the region\u2019s youthful voices SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE\/AETOSWire)&#8211; In the run up to one of MENA region\u2019s premier conferences dedicated to addressing development challenges and humanitarian issues, the third edition of \u2018Investing in the Future\u2019 Conference (IIFMENA) slated for October 24-25 in Sharjah, UAE, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1750,1748,1749],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-menas-youth","tag-nadia-murad","tag-sharjah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}