Speaker: Sybil Chidiac, Senior Program Officer, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

In countries and communities around the globe, women and girls lack full agency over the most fundamental aspects of their own lives, their own families, and across society. This inequality can be traced to structural barriers, like discriminatory laws and policies, which result in unequal pay and restricted access to land or property. Inequality is also the result of barriers that women experience in their day-to-day lives- such as cultural norms and...

Speaker: Dr. Sarah Tuckey, Senior Policy Advisor, Gender Justice, Oxfam America

Over the past several years, Oxfam has seen striking transformation to the conversations around feminist and anti-racist policy, both externally and internally. Dr. Tuckey leads us through a timeline of change for Oxfam, beginning with the call for a feminist foreign policy in the US alongside the development of a feminist strategic plan at Oxfam, to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and the rise of the BLM movement in 2020 and its effect on Oxfam’s internal...

Speaker: Janine Moussa, Director, Due Diligence Project; Independent Consultant

This talk will examine the obligations of the State in preventing and responding to violence against women. It will look at the source of this obligation in international jurisprudence and case law and, through an application of the “5P” Due Diligence Framework, will look at best practice in preventing, protecting, prosecuting, punishment, and providing redress for such violence. The talk will also...