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Panel: 

Michelle Bachelet

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Margot Wallström

Swedish Social Democratic Party politician and diplomat

Nadine Gasman

President of Inmujeres in Mexico


Commentator:

Merike Blofield, Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at GIGA

Moderator:

Christina Alnevall, PhD. Research Secretary at the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University
 

The response to COVID-19 should consider gender-specific experiences and needs since women are in a particularly vulnerable situation. Poverty, extreme poverty and inequality will increase in all countries in Latin America. As women are more precariously employed and account for a larger percentage of informal workers they are, for example, more exposed to the risk of unemployment. Women are also at the forefront of the response, as health professionals, care workers and community volunteers. We know that the burden of unpaid domestic work assumed by women and gender-based violence increase significantly. Some key questions to the panel of this webinar are; How can this complex situation be understood and what consequences for women in Latin America can we see? What government policies and interventions are needed to secure women’s rights during and after this crisis?

Michelle Bachelet is the current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.  Ms. Bachelet was elected President of Chile on two occasions. She also served as Health Minister as well as Chile’s and Latin America’s first female Defense Minister. In 2011, she was named the first Director of UN Women, an organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of women and girls internationally.  She has recently pledged to be a Gender Champion, committing to advance gender equality in OHCHR and in international fora.

 

Margot Wallström, a Swedish Social Democratic Party politician and diplomat, has been Sweden’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Wallström has served as European Commissioner for the Environment and as the First Vice President of the European Commission, with responsibility for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy. Ms. Wallström has also been the Special Representative of the United Nation Secretary-General's Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
 

Nadine Gasman is the President of Inmujeres in Mexico. She has a degree as medical surgeon from La Salle University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a PHD in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. As international officer she served as UN Women Representative in Brazil, and Representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Guatemala from. She has also been head of the Secretary General campaign: UNiTE to End Violence against Women for Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

Merike Blofield is since January 2020 Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Hamburg. Prior to this she was Professor of Political Science and Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Miami.

 


 

 

Moderator:
Christina Alnevall, PhD. Research Secretary at the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University

Organiser: Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies
ContactChristina Alnevall
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