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
