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June 25, 2020

Canada
Virtual Roundtable: Protecting Gender Equality During COVID-19

COVID-19 responses that ignore the pandemic’s disproportionate effects on women and girls risk exacerbating gender inequities and posing additional social and economic costs around the world. Women a…

Play Two Brazilian women cry, one wears a face mask to protect herself from the coronavirus.
Event by Elissa Golberg, Theo Sowa, and Jamille Bigio Women and Foreign Policy Program

March 3, 2020

Eastern Europe
The Security Implications of Human Trafficking

Panelists discuss how human trafficking fuels conflict, drives displacement, and undercuts the ability of international institutions to promote stability. This meeting is cosponsored with CFR’s Wo…

Play Young Nigerian women, rescued from human traffickers, gather in a shelter, some in a bed and some on chairs,
Event by Jamille Bigio, Wai Wai Nu, John Cotton Richmond, and Kathleen Hunt Women and Foreign Policy Program

June 7, 2019

Women and Women's Rights
Human Trafficking, Conflict, and Security

The scale of human trafficking around the world is staggering, affecting populations across regional, ethnic, and religious lines. Trafficking is not simply a gross violation of dignity and human rig…

Podcast Migrants disembark a Libyan Navy boat at a base in Tripoli, Libya, after they were stopped by Libyan coast guards. Libya has become a major hub for human traffickers smuggling African migrants by boat to Italy. September 29, 2015.
Event by Jamille Bigio, James Cockayne, and Sarah E. Mendelson Women and Foreign Policy Program

October 25, 2018

Yemen
In Pursuit of a Political Solution in Yemen: Perspectives From the Frontlines

As crisis in Yemen continues unabated, United Nations Special Envoy Martin Griffith hopes to nurture a political process that would bring an end to the war and its dire humanitarian consequences. Dr…

Podcast A woman and a boy walk past the ruins of buildings destroyed in Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen's capital Sanaa. September 13, 2015.
Event by Jamille Bigio, Sawsan Al-Refaei, and Najiba Al-Najar Women and Foreign Policy Program

December 4, 2018

Sexual Violence
New Ways for the United Nations to Tackle Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Sexual exploitation and abuse has tarnished the operations of peacekeepers charged with protecting civilians, thereby undermining the integrity and effectiveness of international peacekeeping institu…

Podcast UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a high-level meeting on the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, before the 72nd UN General Assembly in New York, United States. September 18, 2017.
Event by Jamille Bigio, Karen Pierce, and Paula Donovan Women and Foreign Policy Program