16 Days of Activism: Building Back Better from COVID-19

16 Days of Activism: Building Back Better from COVID-19

Building Back Better from COVID-19: How can we harness the current spotlight on GBV to accelerate long-term progress to end violence?

By Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Date and time

Wed, 9 Dec 2020 05:00 - 06:30 PST

Location

Online

About this event

To mark 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is delighted to invite you to a dialogue with academics, activists & government on:

Building Back Better from COVID-19: How can we harness the current spotlight on GBV to accelerate long-term progress to end violence?

Please join us to hear from leading thinkers in the GBV field:

  • Professor Charlotte Watts, Chief Scientific Adviser at FCDO and Professor at LSHTM;
  • Dr. Mary Ellsberg, Founding Director of Global Women’s Institute at George Washington University;
  • Ms. Mmabatho Ramagoshi, Special Advisor to the Minister, Presidency for Women, Youth, Persons with Disabilities, South Africa;
  • Ms. Tina Musuya, Executive Director, Centre for Domestic Violence Prevention, Uganda.

Chaired by Vijay Rangarajan, Director General Americas and Overseas Territories, and Gender, FCDO;

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