Heather Elaydi

Heather Elaydi is a Palestinian-Canadian researcher and human rights advocate focused on food, land, water and the environment in West Asia and Africa. Heather holds a master’s degree in agriculture and rural development from the University of East Anglia and currently works as program advisor for the Housing and Land Rights Network-Habitat International Coalition (HIC-HLRN).

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Women lead, resist and thrive – even in the midst of crises

5 March 2021

Human rights

Women lead, resist and thrive – even in the midst of crises

Heather Elaydi: Aligning domestic law to international law is not enough: women’s rights on paper must also be reflected by their lived [...]Read the full article

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