Our News

  • AFEE & IFWE’s Year In Review Video: 2021

  • Congratulations to our President, Nada M. Salem, on having been selected this year to be included in Marquis Who’s Who in America, “inclusion in which is limited to individuals who possess professional integrity, demonstrate outstanding achievement in their respective fields and have made innumerable contributions to society as a whole.”
    Marquis’ Press Release

  • IFWE is honored to have joined the United Nations Global Compact! Click HERE for the welcome letter received from Sanda Ojiambo, CEO & Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact. Here is an excerpt:

“Dear Nada Salem,

This is the age of the new normal, a time of great challenge for the global business community, but also a time of great clarity. 

If the events of 2020 taught us anything, it is that our systems are more fragile and our societies even more unequal than we may have imagined. Business-as-usual is no longer an option in the context of a devastating pandemic and an international economic meltdown.

Instead, this is a moment for principles, resilience, innovation and collaboration on the road to a sustainable recovery and a healthier, more inclusive world…

Business leaders who sign on to the UN Global Compact make a commitment to align their business strategies and practices with our Ten Principles spanning human rights, labour, the environment and the fight against corruption. By integrating these universal principles of responsibility and sustainability into their core operations and across their value chains, companies are also contributing to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda… 

Thank you for joining us on that path. Let us forge ahead, united in the business of a better world, to achieve the transformational change we need in 2021 and beyond.

Yours Sincerely,

Sanda Ojiambo
CEO & Executive Director
United Nations Global Compact”

  • Webinar with Marcus Nobel:

  • Unique Webinar Series for an Executive Certificate in Leadership:
    Ends on February 27, 2021

  • PERSONAL INVITATION TO THE BAHAMAS in May/June 2021, as long as you stay safe and healthy at home now 🙂
    I am honored to share with you that I was invited to be the keynote speaker at a high profile and widely marketed conference for women in the Bahamas on March 28, 2020. I am very grateful to my Harvard University “classmate,” Her Excellency, Mrs. Miriam Emmanuel, Member of the Bahamian Parliament (also President of the Women With Issues Network and member of IFWE’s Honorary Support Committee) and her husband, Bishop Leroy Emmanuel, for putting their faith in me and asking me to address, challenge and motivate, for two hours, a large audience formed of Ministers, Members of Parliament, present and former Politicians, Judges, Magistrates, Church Leaders, Police Officers, Defence Force Officers, Immigration Officers, University Professors, Principals, Teachers, Women from other Civic Organizations and the Community.
    I would like to thank all the people who were going to join us at this conference and tell them that, although it was rightfully postponed till the fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we still hope to see them all with us then… especially the members of IFWE’s and AFEE’s Boards, the members of our Honorary and International Support Committees, the members of our Webinar Steering Committee, and all our friends and relatives who support women’s empowerment!
    Let us plan to stay at home for now to avoid the virus, stay healthy and safe, stay tuned in to IFWE’s webinars, and go to the Bahamas EN MASSE in the fall!
    I am counting on YOUR SUPPORT!
    Sincerely,
    Nada Salem

  • Video about us…

  • FREE WEBINAR in English, with Arabic Subtitles: February 29, 2020!
    Our Second FREE Online Webinar for women worldwide! Following a large number of requests, we will re-run, with Arabic subtitles, the same webinar that was given by the Founder and Executive Director of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPP) at Harvard Kennedy School of Government! Click HERE for more info.

 

  • FREE WEBINAR: DECEMBER 5, 2019!
    Our First FREE Online Webinar for women worldwide! It was given by the Founder and Executive Director of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPP) at Harvard Kennedy School of Government! Click HERE for more info.

  • The International Foundation for Women’s Empowerment is honored to add to its Board of Advisors Mr. Marcus Nobel, promoter of the NOBEL GREEN PRIZE and President and Executive Director of United Earth.

We also greatly appreciate Mr. Nobel’s endorsement of our Foundation in addition to his beautiful and inspiring words that show trust in our work, and we hope to be able to accomplish a lot together!
“Your organization, the IFWE, can replace centuries-old ways of thinking about what the role of women in modern society should be. It is a peaceful evolution based upon love and respect. Women are our Mothers, our Sisters and our Daughters, and the Givers of Life. We need to empower women to achieve peace and to protect our sacred Mother Earth – who has given us all life.” –Marcus Nobel

 

  • Congratulations to our President, Nada Michel Salem, on having been selected as a Woman Leader by the University of Maryland‘s Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace, and on having had her name added as a Woman Leader in the sectors of Academia, Education and Social Development in Lebanon, in the online HUB that Gibran Chair’s Women as Partners in Progress Project (WPP) is building to support women leaders as they advance women’s progress in three countries: Morocco, Jordan and Kuwait. 
    The HUB/Interactive website is a resource and network for women in the Arab world and their allies in the region and internationally; it includes: 57 women pioneers and 97 women leaders from 15 Arab countries; 61 women’s organizations in Arab countries; research materials with longitudinal statistics produced by WPP; and a bibliography with links to local and international think tanks, research institutes and organizations.
    This project is funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) at the US State Department.

 

  • Congratulations to our President, Nada Salem, on having been awarded an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from Harvard Kennedy School of Government!

  • IFWE was represented at Harvard J.F. Kennedy School of Government’s course titled, “Women & Power”

“Great course! Great teachers! Great classmates!! Learned so much; made so many friends; started great partnerships!
Thank you, Professor Hannah Riley Bowles, for your great guidance and support!”
–Nada Salem, April 2019

“Thank you, Professor Marshall Ganz, for your great support!”
–Nada Salem, April 2019

  • IFWE was represented at Harvard J.F. Kennedy School of Government’s course titled, “Leading Successful Programs: Using Evidence to Assess Effectiveness”

Dr. Julie Wilson, Nada Salem, Dr. Dan Levy
And it all started there and then! Cheers to Harvard Kennedy School of Government! Cheers to the Executive Certificate in Public Leadership!