BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:How can we empower women\, and protect children\, caught up in war ? - Andrew Mitchell MP DTSTART:20230420T160000Z DTEND:20230420T173000Z UID:TALK199066@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:113923 DESCRIPTION:12th Sinews Lecture Series\n\n*20th April 2023 online at 17:00 London time (12:00h Eastern Standard Time\, USA)\n\nChair: The Rt Hon And rew Mitchell MP\, Minister for Development and Africa in the Foreign\, Com monwealth and Development Office\n\nPlease join us online for this FREE ev ent as we consider one of the most important issues in development with le ading experts\, Baroness Hodgson of Abinger\, member of the House of Lords \, and Mr Martin Griffiths\, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affa irs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). \n\nThe event is hosted by Dr Nazia Habib fr om the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development\, University of C ambridge.*\n\nSince the ignominious\, inglorious retreat of the US from Ka bul in August 2021\, conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan have be come despicable.\n\nHow can we now help to ensure and support the particip ation of women in the development of Afghanistan and guarantee that the ri ghts of women and girls will be protected\, in the face of this avoidable disaster?\n\nAnd 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?\n\nThis 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.\n\nIt i s free to attend (when you register) and open to all\, wherever you are. P lease join us.\n\nWe will explore the critical issues surrounding how we c an 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 Mi tchell MP\, the UK’s Minister for Development and a Senior Fellow of the CRSD at Cambridge.\n\nPlease don’t miss this important and illuminating event.  Register now here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-we-e mpower-women-and-protect-children-caught-up-in-war-tickets-531978200117\n\ n*Biography of the guest speakers*\n\n*Session Chair: Rt. Hon. Andrew Mitc hell MP\, Minister of State (Foreign\, Commonwealth and Development Office ) (Minister for Development). Senior Fellow\, CRSD\, Cambridge University* \n\nAndrew is the Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield. He was appoin ted Minister of State (Foreign\, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Min ister for Development) in October 2022. Andrew was the Secretary of State for International Development in the British Government from May 2010 unti l he became Government’s Chief Whip in September 2012. He was a member o f the National Security Council in Britain and a Governor of the World Ban k between 2010 and 2012. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 2010. Be fore joining the cabinet in 2010\, he held numerous junior positions in Go vernment (1992-1997) and in opposition (2003-2010). He has been a Senior A dviser for Investec since 2013 and Ernst & Young since 2016. He served in the Army (Royal Tank Regiment) as a UN Peacekeeper before joining the Inte rnational 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 L ondon. He is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Development (CRSD) at the University of Cambridge\; he is a Visiting Fello w at the School of International Studies of Peking University\; and an Hon orary Professor at the School of the Social Sciences for the University of Birmingham.\n\n*Lady Fiona Hodgson\, current member of the House of Lords *\n\nFiona 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.\n\nShe was President of the Conservative Women’s Organisati on from 2008 to 2011\, Chairman from March 2005 to 2008 and Deputy Chairma n from 2002 to 2005. From 2009 to 2012 she was on the Board of the Conserv ative Party\, first as Vice President of the National Convention (2009-201 1) and then as President (2012)\, chairing the Party Conference in Manches ter in October 2011. She is Vice Chairman of the Conservative Policy Forum and a member of the Conservative Human Rights Commission.\n\nSince the en d of her term of office as Chairman of CWO in 2008\, she has worked on int ernational women’s issues especially in the context of developing and co nflict countries.\n\n*Mr Martin Griffiths\, Under-Secretary-General for Hu manitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations* \n\nMartin Griffiths is a British diplomat who currently serves as Under-S ecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations.\n\nGriffiths is a diplomat at the UK's Foreign\, C ommonwealth and Development Office and an experienced conflict mediator. G riffiths previously served as the first executive director of the European Institute of Peace from 2016 to September 2018. In 1999\, he helped launc h the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. He has also worked for S ave The Children\, Action Aid and UNICEF and has worked as an advisor to m ultiple United Nations Syria envoys.\n\nFrom 16 February 2018 to 19 July 2 021 Griffiths served as the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen at the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen.\n\nOn 12 M ay 2021\, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced tha t he had appointed Griffiths as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian A ffairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).\n\n*Host: Dr Nazia M Habib\, FRSA\, Found er and Research Director\, Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Developme nt (CRSD)\, Cambridge University*\n\nDr Nazia M Habib\, FRSA is the Founde r and Research Director for the Centre for Resilience and Sustainable Deve lopment (CRSD)\, at the University of Cambridge. She also holds academic p ositions in the Department of Engineering and the Department of Land Econo my. Trained as a political economist\, Nazia specializes in using systems thinking approaches with political economic theories to influence one's wo rldview of decision making with an emphasis on Sustainable Investment\, Re sponsible Innovation\, and Good Governance. She focuses on emerging issues within economies and has since worked with governments from over fifty-se ven (57) countries. Nazia has received several awards notably\, the Common wealth 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 TISATech\, and a past Fellow with the World Economic Forum (WEF). LOCATION:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-we-empower-women-and-prote ct-children-caught-up-in-war-tickets-531978200117 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR