Global Gender Forum

The Global Gender Forum is a series of speakers and events related to contemporary women and girls around the world. It provides an opportunity for scholars, practitioners, students, and others to be informed about challenges women and girls face, their voices and visions, and progress toward more secure livelihoods, empowerment, and enhanced dignity through improved policies and programs.

Building Capacities and Relationships to Empower Women and Transform Communities in Colombia
May 1, 2012

• The discussion featured five Colombian community leaders who participated in "Building Capacities and Relationships to Empower Women and Transform Communities," a U.S. Department of State-sponsored Professional Fellows Program, in April 2012. They shared their stories of working in Colombia's underserved communities and personal experiences in the program.

Co-sponsored with GW's Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program

Kudumbashrees in Kerala, India: Women-Oriented Community Development
April 9, 2012

• Dr. S. Gregory, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Anthropology, Kannur University, Kerala; India & Fulbright Scholar, University of Chicago

Co-sponsored with GW's Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA) Seminar Series

Burma After the By-Elections: Taking Gender and Human Security Into Account
April 3, 2012

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• Panelists:
• Christina Fink, Professor of Practice, the Elliott School of International Affairs, GW
• Tom Malinowski, Washington Director, Human Rights Watch
• Mark Taylor, Senior Coordinator, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, State Department
• Wenchi Yu, Senior Advisor, the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues, State Department

• Moderated by:
• Deepa Ollapally, Associate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, GW

Co-sponsored with GW's Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Rape in Times of War and Peace: Rethinking Sexual Violence and Postwar Justice in Peru
March 20, 2012

• Jelke Boesten, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace; Senior Lecturer in Social Development and Human Security, University of Leeds

Co-sponsored with GW's Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program

International Women's Day 2012 at the Elliott School
March 8, 2012

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U.N. Peace Operations and Security Equality

• Louise Olsson, UNSCR 1325 Project Leader, Folke Bernadotte Academy
• Moderated by: Barbara Miller, Director, Global Gender Program, the Elliott School of International Affairs
• Watch the video

Women, War and Peace: Addressing Sexual Violence

• Jelke Boesten, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace
• Dara Kay Cohen, Assistant Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
• Kathleen Kuehnast, Director, Gender and Peacebuilding Center, United States Institute of Peace
• Moderated by: Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, Executive Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute North America (SIPRI North America)
• Moderated by: Kerry Frances Crawford, Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, GW
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Improving Gender Equality: Informing Better Policy through Research in the Middle East, North Africa, and Beyond

• Rola Abdul-Latif, Senior Research Specialist, Applied Research Center, International Foundation for Electoral Systems
• Jane Henrici, Study Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research and Professorial Lecturer in International Affairs, GW
• Patti Petesch, Consultant, the World Bank
• Moderated by: Heidi Hartmann, President for Women's Policy and Research
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Gender and Civilian Security

• Maria Otero, Under Secretary, Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, U.S. Department of State
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Co-sponsored with GW's Distinguished Women in International Affairs Series, GW's Security Policy Forum, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute North America (SIPRI North America), the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)

Women's Leadership and Gender Equality in the Political Decision-Making Process in Cambodia, East Timor, and Vietnam
January 26, 2012

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• Endah Agustiana, Gender Adviser/Specialist

The Gender Asset and Wealth Gap: New Evidence from Ghana, Ecuador, and India
November 14, 2011

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• Caren Grown, Senior Gender Advisor, Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning, USAID; Economist in Residence, American University

CARGO: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
September 26, 2011

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• Speakers:
• Andrea Powell, Founder and CEO, FAIR Fund
• Chris Cooper, Executive Producer, Twitch Post

Women in War Zones: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
September 20, 2011

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• Moderated by:
• Nemata Blyden, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs
  
  Panelists:
• Scott Blanding, Founder/Director, Women in War Zones
• Roger Luhiriri, Physician, Panzi Hospital, Democratic Republic of Congo

Combating Human Trafficking in South America: A Multi-Sectoral Approach
September 1, 2011

• Moderated and opening remarks by:
• Andrea Bertone, Director, Center for Gender Equity, FHI 360
  
  Panelists:
• Sebastian Ariel Bagini, Director, Control of Permanent Residency, National Immigration Directorate, Argentina
• Maria Luiza Duarte Araujo, Executive Coordinator, NGO Coletivo Mulher Vida, Brazil
• Tannya Gioconda Varela Coronel, Provincial Chief of Migration, Guayas, Ecuador
• Omar Alberto Matos Pardo, Lieutenant, Panama National Police, Panama

Annual James P. Grant Lecture and Roundtable: Implementing QDDR Recommendations on Gender Development
April 14, 2011

James P. Grant distinguished speaker:
Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State

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• Moderated and opening remarks by:
• Barbara Miller, Director, Global Gender Program
  
  Roundtable participants:
• Leigh Carter, Executive Director, Fonkoze USA
• Caren Grown, Senior Gender Advisor, USAID
• Nilufar Ahmad, Senior Gender Specialist, World Bank
• Winnie Tay, Director of Program Management, Plan International USA
• Anju Malhotra, Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Impact, International Center for Research on Women

Co-sponsored with the Collaborating Centers for Global Health and Development

Women Working for Women
March 7, 2011

• Opening remarks by:
• Barbara Miller, Director, Global Gender Program
  
  Moderated by:
  
• Afeefa Syeed, Senior Culture and Development Advisor, Asia and Middle East Bureaus, USAID
  
  Panelists:
• Cybéle Cochran, USAID/Conflict Management and Mitigation
• Rachel Flynn, International Medical Corps
• Megan Foster, Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)
• Abigail Greenleaf, Global Health, United States Agency for International Development
• Monica Suber, United States Peace Corps
• Laura Van Voorhees, AED
  

No Peace Without Women
November 3, 2010
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• Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO, Women for Women International

Ensuring Vulnerable Women's Autonomy through Economic Independence and Professional Integration
October 28, 2010

• H.E. Aziz Mekouar, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United States
• Aicha Ech-Channa, President, Association Solidarite Feminine (Women's Solidarity); 2009 Opus Prize Winner

Fighting Human Trafficking: Four Approaches by Local Organizations
October 18, 2010

• Representatives from FAIR Fund, Rebecca Project, Courtney's House and Shared Hope International

Working the Night Shift: Women in India's Call Center Industry
April 22, 2010

• Reena Patel, author, Working the Night Shift: Women in India's Call Center Industry

Global Women 2020: Challenges and Priorities over the Next Decade
April 8, 2010

• Katherine Blakeslee, Director, Office of Women in Development, U.S. Agency for International Development
• Mayra Buvinic, Senior Director, Gender and Development, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, The World Bank
• Kathleen Kuehnast, Gender Advisor, Gender and Peacebuilding Initiative, U.S. Institute of Peace
• Alyse Nelson, President and CEO, Vital Voices Global Partnership
  
  Moderated by:
  
• Barbara Miller, Chair, GW Global Women's Initiative; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, GW

What Lies Ahead: The Iraqi Elections, A Gendered Perspective
March 26, 2010

• Ambassador Feisal Istrabadi, former Iraqi Deputy Permanent Representative of Iraq to the UN
• Nesreen Al Barwari, former Iraqi Minister of Municipalities and Public Works
• Mishkat Al Moumin, former Iraqi Minister of the Environment

Female-Selective Abortion as Genocide: The Situation in India
March 24, 2010

• Sabu George, Independent Researcher, New Delhi

Film: Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy
March 8, 2010

• Mark Schuller, Co-producer and Co-director of Poto Mitan; Assistant Professor, City University of New York
• Julie Meyer, Director, Lambi Fund
• Leigh Carter, Executive Director, Fonkoze USA

Conflicts in Israeli Feminism and the Question of Palestine
February 24, 2010

• Smadar Lavie, Associate Professor of Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia
  
  Co-sponsored by the Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA) program

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