Discipline of Gender and Women’s Studies; Gender Net Plus MIG-GBV concluding event, celebrating Nelson Mandela Week

Roundtable: Engaging with media and challenging gender-based violence: foregrounding migrant women’s perspectives

And launch of:  Stories of Migrant Women in Ireland: Surviving Gender-based Violence  – a collection of first-person accounts by participants in the EU/IRC Gender Net Plus MIG-GBV research project (2019-2023)

Chair: Susan McKay, Press Ombudsman

 Roundtable speakers:

• Dr Salome Mbugua CEO, AkiDwA, the national network of migrant women
• Shamim Malekmian, Journalist, Dublin Inquirer
• Emma DeSouza, Writer, campaigner and Co-facilitator, Northern Ireland Civic Initiative
• Dr Nasrin Khandoker, CyberSocial Research Lab, UCC, previously MIG-GBV postdoctoral researcher

Registration:

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