Covid-19, Gender and Human Rights

Aug 28, 2020 | The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
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The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI), in collaboration with partners and researchers in Belarus, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Turkey, and Zimbabwe, has recently launched a multi-country research initiative to analyze COVID-19’s gendered impacts on human rights.

As the first public event of this new initiative, we will host a webinar on COVID-19, gender and human rights. This webinar on Zoom seeks to provide critical insights into the effects of the pandemic on human rights of women and discuss what should be done to better respond to exacerbated gender inequalities and increased gender-based violence and intersectional discrimination faced by women in the context of COVID-19.

The COVID-19 crisis affects people differently due to already existing structural inequalities, power asymmetries, and cultural and social norms within our societies. ‘We are all in this together’ is not accurate. Even if we are all in this, we are not in it in the same ways. Gender is one of the key dynamics shaping how people are influenced by the ongoing pandemic.

Who: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Where: Online

When:  28 August 2020    Time: 11:00 AM in Stockholm