Commission on the Status of Women Session 65, incontro on line

Commission on the Status of Women Session 65

ONLINE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & SDGs Agenda 2030

Virtual Webinar – Wednesday March 17, 2021

11.00 EST

Webinar registration https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kuHbEQQOQsSYSarnsvTH_Q

Online is the new front line for violence against women and girls, and it has increased exponentially during COVID-19 and the lockdowns. Online violence is an epicenter of risk, intersectional and intergenerational, and compounding multiple forms of violence against women and girls, including trafficking.

Distinguished Speakers;

• Baroness Hussein-ECE, Co-chair of the UK APPG on Population, Development & Reproductive Health- Violence Against Women in Public Life

• Simona Lanzoni, Second Vice President of Grevio-CoE Vice President Head of Projects and Advocacy Fondazione Pangea onlus -VAW New Frontier Between Hate Speech & Cyber Space

• Revd Dr. Carrie Pemberton Ford, Senior Fellow in Ethics and Public Life MBIT University of Cambridge Founding Director of the Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking  ccarht.org – The internet of women / not things– addressing the challenges of on-line recruitment, exploitation, and rapacious monetisation through policy, responsible business and education

• Mandy Sanghera, International human rights activists/ philanthropists

The Real Hidden Cost of the Pandemic on Women

• Shelley Zalis, CEO, The Female Quotient
  Creating Safe, Virtual Spaces for Women in Business

• Sadia Mir, WUNRN EU – Online VAW SDGs and Agenda 2030, Moderator