Mona Abdeljawad

Mona AbdeljawadLSN - Landmine Survivors Network
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Mona AbdeljawadDirector of International Programs

Mona Abdeljawad has been working with LSN since 1999, where she has been responsible for setting up the Jordan network and training staff on running the basic operations of the network.

Currently she is responsible for setting up a regional office based in Jordan, where the objective of the program is to enhance the lives of landmine survivors and amputees in the Middle East North Africa region.On a system level, she works through mobilizing disability groups and persons with disabilities to change legislation and systems related to the rights of persons with disabilities.She also works on securing partnerships that will improve health and economic services for landmine survivors in the region.

Mona is also the Convention Campaign Coordinator, an LSN campaign that aims at securing 80+ ratifications on the proposed Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and is a Certified Management Accountant.She came to LSN with four years experience, having worked with Save the Children US, where she worked on a Group Guaranteed Lending and Saving Project for women.

Mona Abdeljawad - Director of International Programs

Ms. Mona Abdeljawad, MENA Regional Coordinator, Landmine Survivors Network, Jordan, shared her views on "The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Experience from the Arab World" and commented that the human rights standard setting was not a complete process.

Representing LSN at the meeting were Adnan Al-Aboudi, Director LSN-Jordan Network, Plamenko Priganica, Director LSN-Bosnia Network LSN Middle East Regional Coordinator Mona Abdeljawad, Rights Advisor Kirsten Young, and Program Associate Nerina Cevra.

"The training programme is a very important step forward in spreading both human rights and disability rights culture," LSN Regional Coordinator Mona Abdeljawad said.

"When persons with disabilities train other people on disability rights, we will send an important message to all those who have marginalised disability rights for years," she added.

She noted that the programme also provided the participants with a forum to move forward and establish an Arab disability rights network, exclusively led by persons with disabilities.

Attending the meeting are the Adnan Al-Aboudi, Director LSN-Jordan Network, Plamenko Priganica, Director LSN-Bosnia Network and an official member of the Bosnian delegation, LSN Middle East Regional Coordinator Mona Abdeljawad, Rights Advisor Kirsten Young, and Program Associate Nerina Cevra.
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Mr. Aboudi is working in conjunction with LSN Middle East Regional Coordinator Mona Abdeljawad to lobby other governments and formalize the Arab position on various articles.

Mona Abdeljawad, LSN's Middle East Regional Coordinator explained the purpose of the conference.

Middle East & North Africa Regional Coordinator Mona Abdeljawad participated, outlining Arab participation in the negotiation of a Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.*

For the past five years, Network Director Adnan Al Aboudi and Middle East Regional Coordinator Mona Abdeljawad have worked tirelessly to improve the situation for landmine survivors and people with disabilities in the entire region.
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Mona has worked closely with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), representing LSN in the region as a focal point on Victim Assistance, networking with other NGOs, conducting trainings, and raising awareness on the issue.Mona is also assisting in the coordination of LSN's partnership with ResCare, a U.S.-based company that is working with LSN to improve the quality of and access to vocational training for people with disabilities and other underemployed and marginalized groups in Jordan.

Mona Abdeljawad - Middle East Regional Coordinator