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Magda Zenon is a human women’s rights activist whose perspective has been influenced by having lived in apartheid South Africa, Greece, and now divided Cyprus.

As an active member of Cypriot civil society, her focus has been on the integration of a gender perspective within peace processes and beyond, both locally and globally and to this end she has both founded and worked with a number of island-wide women’s groups, including Hands Across the Divide (Cyprus), the Gender Advisory Team and the Cyprus Women’s Lobby that is a member of the European Women’s Lobby. She is a member of the Mediterranean Women Mediators Network (MWMN), the Women Mediators Across the Commonwealth network (WMC) and the Women's Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL).

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Some of the activities she has been involved in on her activist journey was her participation in the feature-length doco Missing Fetine about a woman’s search to find out what happened to her great aunt after she was forced to marry and leave Cyprus in the 1930's; being invited to Buckingham Palace in 2019 on the occasion of Women’s Day to a gathering of 120 women peacebuilders from around the globe hosted by the Countess of Wessex, and, being 1 of 4 women from around the globe invited to a virtual roundtable with UN SG Guterres in 2020 for the 20th Anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325.

Magda discovered her passion for story-telling in 2013 when she was offered a radio show on a community radio station called MYCYradio and which she used as a forum for women's voices that led her to host conversations about peacebuilding with inspiring women from around the globe on her Internet-based women’s forum called kaleidHERscope. She has also hosted 21 Women Mediators from the MWMN in podcasts entitled #HerStories that went online in September 2020, #MeetTheWomenCyprus podcasts with 27 women from throughout Cyprus that went online in July 2021 and #AtThePeaceTableWith... podcasts with mediators from the WMC that went online in October 2021.