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Mobina Jaffer

Appointed to Canada’s Senate in 2001, Mobina Jaffer became Special Envoy to the Peace Process in Sudan the following year. In 2002 she also took on the role of Chair of the Canadian Committee on Women Peace & Security, pursuing her conviction that the key to peace is the inclusion of women in peace processes worldwide, as outlined in the United Nations 1325 (2000) Resolution.

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Women taking power: Mobina Jaffer's message

Rosemary Bechler would like to thank the Foreign Policy Centre and the Barrow Cadbury Trust for a chance to meet Senator Mobina Jaffer and others at the Global Exchange Forum: Understanding Women's Social Capital and spend the day at that interesting event

When I met Senator Mobina Jaffer at the Global Exchange Forum, this small-built, demure lady ate her lunch while giving rapid, comprehensive answers to my questions without any sign of strain. Here was a redoubtable multi-tasker, I thought. Born in Uganda, Mobina Jaffer has achieved a string of firsts: she became the first East Indian woman lawyer in British Columbia and in 2001 she was appointed to the Canadian Senate as the first East Indian, first Muslim woman, and the first African. A year later, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed her Chair of the Canadian Committee on Women, Peace and Security. Canada has been a leading nation among the “Friends of 1325”, and Mobina seized the opportunity to initiate a new way of working: