The Consortium, in conjunction with the Irish Forum for Global Health, celebrated International Women’s Day 2012, on March 8th in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Dame Street, Dublin 2.

The focus of the event was ‘The Health and Social Consequences of Violence Against Women and Girls’.

The event was chaired by:

Eilish MacAuliffe: Executive Committee – Irish Forum for Global Health, Director – Centre for Global Health.

Jim Clarken: CEO – Oxfam Ireland, Chair – Irish Joint Consortium on Gender Based Violence.

Speakers at the event:

Dr. Avni Amin: World Health Organization Geneva.

Alwiye Xusein: AkiDwA.

Video Footage from the day:

Alwiye Xusein: AkiDwA.

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Dr. Avni Amin: World Health Organization Geneva.

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Nata Duvvury: Co-Director, Global Women’s Studies Programme, NUI Galway.

Lori Michau: Co-Director, Raising Voices, Kampala, Uganda (via video link).

Carol Wrenn: Gender Equality Programme Officer, Trócaire.

Date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2011.

Location: Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, 27-31 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.

Nata Duvvury speaking at the event.

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Lori Michau speaking at the event.

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Also at the event, the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore launched the National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325; Women, Peace & Security.

Speakers on the day included:

Mary Robinson, was the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997), former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), founder and President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (2002-2010), and has spent most of her life as a human rights advocate. She is the patron of the Irish Joint Consortium on Gender Based Violence.  She was educated at the University of Dublin (Trinity College), King’s Inns Dublin and Harvard Law School to which she won a fellowship in 1967. The recipient of numerous honours and awards throughout the world including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama, Mary Robinson is a member of the Elders, former Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders and a member of the Club of Madrid. She is chair of the GAVI Alliance Board and President of the International Commission of Jurists.  She serves on several boards including the Global Compact, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the American Philosophical Society. She now serves as President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice.

Jeanne Ward, CSW, is an internationally recognized expert on violence against women and girls in conflict-affected settings. Currently based out of Nairobi, Kenya, Ms. Ward has consulted to over 30 countries around the world.  She provides technical leadership, training, assessment and monitoring support in developing and improving VAW-related research, policies, systems, programs and community-based practices.  She is the author of numerous publications on VAW, such as the IRIN publication “Broken Bodies, Broken Dreams:  Violence Against Women Exposed” and the UNICEF publication “From Visible to Indivisable:  Protecting and Promoting the Rights of the Girl Child.”   She has also developed globally-disseminated tools and guidelines for conflict-affected settings, most recently producing a GBV Coordination Handbook (2010) for the global GBV Area of Responsibility Working Group. She has taught at Smith College and Columbia University.

Aisling Swaine has several years experience of GBV programming, management, policy development and implementation with Irish Aid, the Department of Foreign Affairs, UNFPA, Concern, and the International Rescue Committee.  She has spent over seven years living and working full-time in conflict-affected/fragile states.  She is currently conducting qualitative research on gender based violence for the purposes of her PhD.  Some of her many publications include Assessing the Potential of National Action Plans to Advance the Implementation of UNSCR 1325; Voices of Experience: Cross-Learning Process on UNSCR 1325; and Traditional Justice and Gender Based Violence Timor-Leste.

Aisling Swaine speaking at the Irish Joint Consortium Annual Seminar 2011.

Jeanne Ward speaking at the Irish Joint Consortium Annual Seminar 2011.

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Mary Robinson speaking at the launch of the National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325; Women, Peace & Security.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore speaking at the launch of the National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325; Women, Peace & Security.

Susan McKay speaking at the launch of the National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325; Women, Peace & Security.

Q&A – Annual Seminar 2011

This eight week distance education course focusses specifically on:

* Gender Based Violence against Women.
* Non-Emergency Development Settings.
* Lower Income Countries.

Please see KODE website for more information on the course schedule, outline, tutor bios, fees etc.

www.kodeonline.com

Indicators

The guest speaker was Dr Gary Barker, PhD. Mr Barker is International Director of Promundo, based in Washington DC, previously being a founding Executive Director of ‘Instituto Promundo’, a nongovernmental organization based in Brazil that works to promote gender equality and reduce violence against children, youth and women.

Formerly Director, Gender, Violence and Rights at the International Center for Research on Women, Washington, Dr Barker is a social scientist with more than 15 years of experience researching gender equality, men and masculinities, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. He also is an expert in exploring the links between men and violence in conflict and post-conflict settings in parts of Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He is also co-chair and co-founder of the MenEngage Alliance, a global network working to engage men and boys in gender equality (www.menengage.org).

Learning Brief 6: A learning brief on Engaging Men and Boys to address GBV, that was produced from the Gary Barker event.

Gary Barker seminar – part 1

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Gary Barker seminar – part 2

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Gary Barker seminar – part 3

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Gary Barker seminar – part 4

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Gary Barker seminar – part 5

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Good Practice Guide

Focus of this year’s event:
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 – Women, Peace and Security.
The Monitoring and Evaluation of Ireland’s upcoming National Action Plan (NAP) on UN SCR1325.

Chairing the event: Inez McCormack
Chairperson of the Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) Project.

ADDRESSING THE EVENT:

Mary Robinson
President, The Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice.
President, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative.

Margot Wallström
United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General. (SRSG) on Sexual Violence in Conflict.

Charlotte Onslow
Senior Programme Officer – International Alert.

Minister Mary White
Mininster for Equality, Integration and Human Rights.

Brendan Howlin TD
Labour Party Spokesperson on Human Rights and Vice-President of AWEPA – Parliamentarians With Africa.

Susan McKay
CEO, National Women’s Council of Ireland.

A Good Practice Guide was produced for the day – for the monitoring and evaluation of national action plans on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.

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Good Practice Guide

Download Brendan Howlin TD speech

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Footage November Conference – part 1

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Footage November Conference – part 2

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Footage November Conference – part 3

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Footage November Conference – part 4

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Footage November Conference – part 5

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Footage November Conference – part 6

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Footage November Conference – part 7

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Footage November Conference – part 8

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This year, the day focussed on demonstrating the links between Gender Based Violence (GBV) and the Eradication of Extreme Poverty and Hunger (MDG 1).

Addressing the event were:

• Dr. Nata Duvvury: Dept. of Gender, Globalisation and Development, NUI Galway
• Lina Abirafeh: GBV Co-ordinator for the UN Humanitarian Response, Haiti
• James Okoth: FAO, Uganda
• Gertrude Kabawzi: National Gender Co-ordinator, Concern Universal, Malawi
• Dr. Julia Kim: Image Project South Africa/UNDP
• Savio Carvalho: Demand Dignity Campaign, Amnesty International
• Martha Nemera: Executive Director, Women Support Association, Ethiopia.

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(Vimeo) Video interviews with speakers.

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(Youtube) Video interviews with speakers.

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