Launch of ICGBV report; Women, War and Displacement

A review of the impact of conflict on gender based violence

In response to the extremely high levels of conflict and displacement currently experienced globally, the Consortium has produced a paper highlighting the connection between conflict, displacement and gender based violence entitled ‘Women, War and Displacement.’

  • Location: William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, UCD Belfield, Dublin 4
  • Time & Date: 1pm – 2.30pm, Wednesday 16th November 2016
  • Registration details can be found at our Eventbrite site

Women, War & Displacement

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The Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence would like to invite you to the launch of their report on Women, War and Displacement. The report illustrates the connection between heightened conflict, displacement and increased levels of gender based violence, and argues for a more robust gendered dimension of GBV response in the Global Compacts on Migration and Responsibility Sharing for Refugees, to be produced over the next two years. In addition, case studies drawn from the programmes of ICGBV membership agencies are featured in the document, giving voice to women who have experienced gender based violence as a result of conflict and displacement. As part of the launch we will be holding a roundtable discussion on conflict, displacement and gender based violence, and the gendered dimension of the refugee crisis. ICGBV was formed in 2005 and brings together Irish humanitarian and development organisations, Irish Aid and the Irish Defence Forces, in an effort to combat gender based violence.


The Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence would like to invite you to the launch of their report on ‘Women, War and Displacement’. The report illustrates the connection between conflict, displacement and gender based violence, and argues for a more robust gendered dimension of GBV response in the Global Compacts on Migration and Responsibility Sharing for Refugees, to be produced over the next two years. In addition, case studies drawn from the programmes of ICGBV membership agencies are featured in the document, giving voice to women who have experienced gender based violence as a result of conflict and displacement.


As part of the launch we will be holding a roundtable discussion on conflict, displacement and gender based violence, and the gendered dimension of the refugee crisis.

ICGBV was formed in 2005 and brings together Irish humanitarian and development organisations, academic institutions, Irish Aid and the Irish Defence Forces, in an effort to combat gender based violence.

  • Nora Owen (moderator) former minister for Justice and current chair of the Irish Oversight Group on UN Resolution 1325: Women, Peace and Security.
  • Siobhan Foran – Adviser to the Red Cross Red Crescent Gender and Diversity Network (Irish Red Cross)
  • Sotiria Kyriakopoulou – ActionAid Greece Protection Programme Manager
  • Lt Commander Erika O’ Leary – Irish Naval Service Gender Advisor
  • Christine Karumba – Co-Founder & Executive Director at PLEDGE: Project for Leadership in Economic Development, Gender & Education

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