This event is in collaboration with Basma El Doukhi and the 19th Oxford Human Rights Festival

About the Event

As part of the UN Women International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender Violence 2020, Basma El Doukhi will lead an interactive session to challenge assumptions and raise awareness around the facts of gender based violence.

The chosen theme by UN Women this year is "Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!" You can find out more here. “Let’s support the initiative globally.” Says Basma.

Basma has compiled 16 facts and will facilitate an online interactive quiz to help the public assess their knowledge, challenge their perceptions and raise awareness of issues around gender-based violence in the UK and around the world. “I promise you that the quiz and the discussion will be a rewarding learning experience. It is our collective responsibility to let all the brave survivors all around the world know we are here to listen and help raise awareness’. Basma

The event will end with an interactive discussion and there will be time for personal reflections on how each of us can make a commitment to raise awareness.

Bring your friends, family members and colleagues who are interested to challenging their perceptions and assumptions around GBV.

About Basma: Basma El Doukhi is a specialized humanitarian professional who has had more than 10 years’ experience working on sexual and gender-based violence and other types of violence in war zones and protracted displacement. (See below for Basma's full biography).

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Basma El Doukhi

Alumni of Centre of Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes University

Basma is a Palestinian residing and working in Lebanon. She has a bachelor’s in teaching English language and Literature and has completed an academic qualification from Oxford University and University of Geneva about forced displacement and regional and global migration governance.

In addition to another academic qualification about Psychosocial Interventions in Migration, Emergency and Displacement from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna university. Basma is a Chevening scholar for 2019/2020 and a Rebecca Dyknes award holder from the UK embassy in Lebanon. Before starting her Masters at Oxford Brookes University, Basma worked as protection and community based humanitarian and development professional with UNHCR, UNRWA and many international NGOs in Lebanon and Syria. She has been actively involved in humanitarian and development work with refugees and asylum seekers for the past ten years including working on topics in relation to sexual and gender based violence, child protection, prevention and response activities and community outreach and mobilization support programs including advocacy.

Basma also delivers sessions and leads panel discussions about forced displacement, migration and refugee protection to universities, students and many other actors. Basma is also a Cumberland Lodge Scholar from 2019-2020 and she is undertaking the Emerging International leaders Programme. In addition to that, Basma is also a young emerging women leader in the Women for Future leaders Programme. Basma is dedicated and passionate to interfaith relations and refugee protection including humanitarian work, rights advocacy and campaigning including working with women and youth, and community development and outreach. Basma is an avid reader, passionate about food, and loves learning about new people and travelling.

Basma believes that changing in one life will lead to the change in the world, she likes to be the voice of the voiceless and to inspire people through actions and kindness.