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Wednesday
30
May

Gender Mainstreaming in the Security Sector: Challenges and Good Practices from West Africa

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WELCOME NOTE

Anja Ebnöther, Assistant Director, DCAF

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

H.E. Steffen Kongstad, Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva

ROUNDTABLE

Kristin Valasek, Project Coordinator at DCAF, Co-editor of the report The Security Sector and Gender in West Africa: A survey of police, defence, justice and penal services in ECOWAS states

Isha L. Dyfan, Chief of the Women's Rights and Gender Section of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Bina D'Costa, Researcher on Gender and Security at Australian National University and Visiting Fellow at PGGC

MODERATION, DISCUSSION AND CLOSING REMARKS

Elisabeth Prügl, Director, Programme on Gender and Global Change

The roundtable will be followed by a reception.

The discussion is based on the new DCAF publication The Security Sector and Gender in West Africa: A survey of police, defence, justice and penal services in ECOWAS states which is available online in French and English.
Hard copies of the publication in English and French will be available at the round table.

This roundtable is organised in collaboration with DCAF
 

   

Free entrance
Registration required. Please register here
Auditorium Jacques-Freymond, Site Barton, 132 rue de Lausanne
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