Gender-Responsive Peacebuilding: Healing the Trauma of Gender-Based Violence
This session will consider how reconciliation is achievable in contexts where gender-based violence has been used as a weapon and how communities are able to heal from such trauma
Speakers
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Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeFormer Hostage and AuthorNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Counsellor
Former Hostage and Author
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in Iran in April 2016 and was held hostage for 6 years. Many people campaigned for Nazanin during her incarceration leading to her release in March 2022. Nazanin is a Project Manager at Thomson Reuters Foundation and has previously worked for the international Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and WHO in Iran.
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Ilia CalderónAnchor, Host and CorrespondentIlia Calderón
Counsellor
Anchor, Host and Correspondent
Univision NetworkIlia Calderón is the co-anchor of Univision Network’s flagship weekday evening newscast, “Noticiero Univision.” Calderón also anchors “Aquí y Ahora,” Univision’s primetime newsmagazine, and in July 2023 became host of the newly launched streaming true crime show “Señales de Crimen” on ViX. Calderón is a trailblazer. She is the first Afro-Latina to anchor an evening newscast for a major broadcast network in the United States. In September 2023, she co-moderated the first Spanish-language broadcast of a republican presidential primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, becoming the first Afro-Latina to do so. Calderón also made history as the first Afro-Latina to co-moderate a Democratic presidential primary debate in 2020. Additionally, in her native Colombia, she became the first Afro-Colombian to host "Noticiero CMI,” a national news program. As a respected journalist, Calderón has received several recognitions during her professional career, including two Emmy® Awards. In 2019, she was named one of Carnegie Corporation’s Great Immigrants Great Americans. In 2002, she was named one of the 100 most important Hispanic journalists by the Hispanic Media 100 organization.
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Matcha Phorn-inFounder and Executive Director, Sangsan Anakot Yawachon FoundationMatcha Phorn-in
Counsellor
Founder and Executive Director, Sangsan Anakot Yawachon Foundation
Sangsan Anakot Yawachon FoundationMatcha is an ethnic minority and/or indigenous lesbian feminist women human rights defender. Matcha Phorn-in has been passionately and committed to work advancing human rights, gender and SOGIESCjustice. She has worked for almost 20 years to empower young people and people from the most marginalised communities, especially LGBTIQAN+, women and children from an indigenous communities that many of them still holding stateless, undocumented refugees. Matcha Phorn-in founded and serves as the Executive Director of Sangsan Anakot Yaowachon Foundation, an organisation that works with young people from indigenous communities living in disaster-prone Thai villages, at the Thailand and Myanmar border and Matcha is also involving and served as a board member of APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, a leading network of more than 250 members of feminist organisations and individual activists in Asia and the Pacific. At the global levels, Matcha is involving and served as a co-presidency of International Family Equality Day - IFED, an marriage equality and right to family for LGBTIQAN+ global movement.
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Lina KhalifehFounder and Owner, SheFighter. Philanthropy and Partnerships Manager, Pink Triangle Press