CERL Affiliated Faculty Rangita de Silva de Alwis has been named special advisor to a U.K. Parliamentary Committee tasked with investigating the concept of “gender apartheid” in Afghanistan and Iran.

Rangita de Silva de Alwis is Senior Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Member-Elect to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women ( CEDAW). She is also a member of CERL’s Affiliated Faculty.

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