Hanan Abdel Rahman-Rabbani is the Open Society Foundations’ Senior Program Officer on Women’s Rights in the Arab regional office in Amman. Previously she served as the head of Amman Human Rights Office with the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq. She worked with several local, regional and international organizations in the fields of human and women’s rights and managed a national women’s rights project in Palestine entitled “Palestinian Model Parliament: Women and Legislation,” which was awarded a French government prize as an outstanding human rights projects.