How can we empower women, and protect children, caught up in war?

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• Thursday 20 April 2023, 17:00-18:30
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12th Sinews Lecture Series

20th April 2023 online at 17:00 London time (12:00h Eastern Standard Time, USA )

Chair: The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister for Development and Africa in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Please join us online for this FREE event as we consider one of the most important issues in development with leading experts, Baroness Hodgson of Abinger, member of the House of Lords, and Mr Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The event is hosted by Dr Nazia Habib from the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development, University of Cambridge.

Since the ignominious, inglorious retreat of the US from Kabul in August 2021, conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan have become despicable.

How can we now help to ensure and support the participation of women in the development of Afghanistan and guarantee that the rights of women and girls will be protected, in the face of this avoidable disaster?

And what does this terrible saga tell us about the obligation to support and empower women, and to protect children, especially girls, in the face of conflict and war?

This interactive, online Sinews of Development series event will be staged by the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development (the CRSD ) at the University of Cambridge.

It is free to attend (when you register) and open to all, wherever you are. Please join us.

We will explore the critical issues surrounding how we can support and empower women and to protect children caught up in conflict and war with a panel of leading experts, chaired by The Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, the UK’s Minister for Development and a Senior Fellow of the CRSD at Cambridge.

Please don’t miss this important and illuminating event.  Register now here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-we-empower-women-and-protect-children-caught-up-in-war-tickets-531978200117

Biography of the guest speakers

Session Chair: Rt. Hon. Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development). Senior Fellow, CRSD , Cambridge University

Andrew is the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield. He was appointed Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development) in October 2022. Andrew was the Secretary of State for International Development in the British Government from May 2010 until he became Government’s Chief Whip in September 2012. He was a member of the National Security Council in Britain and a Governor of the World Bank between 2010 and 2012. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 2010. Before joining the cabinet in 2010, he held numerous junior positions in Government (1992-1997) and in opposition (2003-2010). He has been a Senior Adviser for Investec since 2013 and Ernst & Young since 2016. He served in the Army (Royal Tank Regiment) as a UN Peacekeeper before joining the International Investment Bank, Lazard where he worked on and off for 30 years. He was a Director of Lazard Asia and Lazard India as well as of Lazard London. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development (CRSD) at the University of Cambridge; he is a Visiting Fellow at the School of International Studies of Peking University; and an Honorary Professor at the School of the Social Sciences for the University of Birmingham.

Lady Fiona Hodgson, current member of the House of Lords

Fiona Hodgson, a campaigner on women’s issues and senior member of the Conservative voluntary Party, was elevated to the House of Lords in August 2013.

She was President of the Conservative Women’s Organisation from 2008 to 2011, Chairman from March 2005 to 2008 and Deputy Chairman from 2002 to 2005. From 2009 to 2012 she was on the Board of the Conservative Party, first as Vice President of the National Convention (2009-2011) and then as President (2012), chairing the Party Conference in Manchester in October 2011. She is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Policy Forum and a member of the Conservative Human Rights Commission.

Since the end of her term of office as Chairman of CWO in 2008, she has worked on international women’s issues especially in the context of developing and conflict countries.

Mr Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations

Martin Griffiths is a British diplomat who currently serves as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations.

Griffiths is a diplomat at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and an experienced conflict mediator. Griffiths previously served as the first executive director of the European Institute of Peace from 2016 to September 2018. In 1999, he helped launch the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. He has also worked for Save The Children, Action Aid and UNICEF and has worked as an advisor to multiple United Nations Syria envoys.

From 16 February 2018 to 19 July 2021 Griffiths served as the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen at the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen.

On 12 May 2021, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced that he had appointed Griffiths as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Host: Dr Nazia M Habib, FRSA , Founder and Research Director, Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development (CRSD), Cambridge University

Dr Nazia M Habib, FRSA is the Founder and Research Director for the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development (CRSD), at the University of Cambridge. She also holds academic positions in the Department of Engineering and the Department of Land Economy. Trained as a political economist, Nazia specializes in using systems thinking approaches with political economic theories to influence one’s worldview of decision making with an emphasis on Sustainable Investment, Responsible Innovation, and Good Governance. She focuses on emerging issues within economies and has since worked with governments from over fifty-seven (57) countries. Nazia has received several awards notably, the Commonwealth Fellowship, Newton Fellowship, and Harvard Sustainability Science Fellowship. She is currently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a special advisor for the EAT Foundation, a Non-Executive Board member for TISA Tech, and a past Fellow with the World Economic Forum (WEF).

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