Rasha Jarhum

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About Rasha Jarhum

Rasha Jarhum is a South Yemeni - Canadian citizen. Jarhum is co-founder and Director of the Peace Track Initiative. Jarhum was appointed as a member of the National Consultation and Reconciliation Commission in 2022, and headed the Rights and Freedoms Permanent Committee in Yemen in 2024. She was selected among Apolitical list of 100 most influential people on gender policy for 2021. She was invited among seven women by the UN Special Envoy to Yemen to support the peace talks held in Kuwait in 2016 and has briefed the UN Security Council on Yemen and Women’s Rights to push for peace. Jarhum has contributed as part of the reading group to review the CNAP and supported efforts to develop and localise the Yemeni National Agenda for Women, Peace, and Security. She has more than 20 years’ experience working to advocate women’s, children’s, and refugees’ rights with many organisations including Oxfam, UNICEF, ESCWA, and UNDP. Jarhum holds a master’s degree from the University of Nottingham, in International Business Management. Jarhum is an award winner of the Women Have Wings Award (2016) and Women Rebels Against War: Anita Augspurg Prize (2019). She is a member of the Women, Peace and Security Network- Canada and the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, at University of Ottawa. She is also a 2016 New Voices Aspen fellow at Aspen Institute, USA, and alumni member of the Geneva Center for Security Policy (2018). She is also a founding member of the Women Solidarity Network in Yemen, and a member of the MENA regional Coalition of Women Human Rights Defenders. X:@RashaJarhum Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rashajarhum.bsky.social