Uighur Women Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In Toronto Canada in 2009, Ms. Jiwani was invited by the Uighur Women’s Group to impart the knowledge of human rights and the knowledge of the UN Charter for Human Rights and the Conventions on Elimination of Discrimination to a group of Uighur women. In the course of her address to the Uighur Women Group, Ms. Jiwani also conducted a workshop on oppression, violence and dehumanization of women at the hands of Chinese Government and discussed how the UN can add momentum to women’s rights movement in censored countries.