​When We Are Bold

Sanam Naraghi Anderlini is an Iranian-born British researcher and consultant to the United Nations on women, conflict and peacebuilding. She is co-founder and executive director of a non-governmental organization, the International Civil Society Action Network. Along with Cora Weiss and other prominent women’s rights advocates, she lobbied the U.N. Security Council to pass the historic UNSC Resolution 1325.

Read Cora Weiss: When The Cause is Right 
by Sanam Naraghi Anderlini in When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right

Cora Weiss is President of the Hague Appeal for Peace, an international network dedicated to the abolition of war and making peace a human right. An activist since the 1950s, Weiss’ work has included breaking race barriers in the 1960s, a leadership role in the anti-Vietnam war movement, convening women peacemakers during the Cold War and, in 2000, helping realize the historic United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 that recognizes the essential role of women as peacebuilders.