Leading woman in Turkey strives to make gender equality a reality beyond COVID-19
Alia ElYassir UN Women Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia and Representative to Turkey since September 2018 with the UN system since 1995 talks about her career and work on gender equality Ms El Yassir previously worked as the UN Women Special Representative in the occupied Palestinian territory managing a complex portfolio of programmes and projects as well as supporting the UN Country Team UNCT and Humanitarian Country Team on establishing coordination mechanisms for tackling gender equality and womens empowerment issues She is part of the UN Development Group roster of gender experts and has supported other UNCTs in this capacity Before joining UN Women she briefly worked with UNDP and was engaged in the education field In addition to volunteering with a number of womens and human rights NGOs she has worked on educational media for children