Press conference to support Khattab’s UNESCO candidacy

CAIRO – 30 September 2017: The campaign supporting ambassador Moushira Khattab for the post of director general at UNESCO is holding a press conference on Saturday at the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square.

The press conference will be attended by its campaign manager ambassador Mohamed Orabi, major general Tariq al-Mahdi, Zahi Hawass, head of the Front of Identity Hossam Eissa, and a number of members of the House of Representatives.

The campaign coordinated with the State Information Services on Tuesday to hold a press conference in support of Khattab, and was attended by a large number of Arab and foreign media sources.

This campaign aims to introduce Khattab to foreign and local media and to answer any questions about the campaign.

the Arab Tourist Guides Union (ATGU) will launch a campaign on Saturday’s conference to support Egypt's nomination of Khattab as UNESCO director general, ATGU chairman Mohamed Gharib said.

Khattab is an Egyptian diplomat, who has led a long and distinguished career as a human rights activist. Serving in Egypt’s diplomatic missions in Australia, Hungary, Austria and the United Nations (New York and Vienna), she is a human rights activist advocating the rights of children and women, and functioning as former chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child based at the UN Headquarters in Geneva.

Khattab was minister of Family and Population in 2011. She also served as Egypt’s ambassador to South Africa, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

UNESCO is the United Nations organization responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication.