Almas Jiwani, President of UN Women National Committee Canada, has been selected as a member of the Magna Carta Canada Honourary Committee.
The committee will oversee plans for the Canadian tour of the venerable Magna Carta and its companion document, the Charter of the Forest, which will be touring four Canadian cities in 2015, commemorating their 800th anniversary.
“It is a privilege to become a member of the distinguished Magna Carta Committee. This is an iconic document and with true relevance to our contemporary lives, particularly those of girls and women, despite its 800 years,” said Almas Jiwani.
“It is the seminal document for women’s rights, perhaps not as we understand them, but it certainly is among the original links in the chain to what United Nations Women Canada National Committee, and other organizations such as ours around the world, stand for and are working so hard to achieve,” she said.
Other members of the Magna Carta Canada Committee are former Prime Ministers the Right Honourable John Turner and the Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell; former Cabinet Minister the Honourable David Crombie; former Ontario Chief Justice, Roy McMurtry; and political commentator, David Frum.
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