UCL event on recently launched COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker
24 November 2020
Professor Maxine Molyneux (UCL Americas) recently convened a virtual event on the topic of the UNDP-UNW Global Tracker, co-hosted by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and UCL Institute of the Americas, with an expert panel from UN Women and associated institutions
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On November 23 2020, a group of researchers, scholars and policy-makers got together for the event 'Latin American Countries and Women's Rights and Needs during the Pandemic' to discuss the inception, methodology and impact of this impressive quantitative and comparative statistical tool, launched in September 2020. The event was chaired by Professor Nicola Miller, Department of History UCL and Director of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies. Speakers at the virtual roundtable included:
- Dr Constanza Tabbush, UN Women
- Dr Silke Staab, UN Women
- Dr Eleonor Faur, National University of San Martin and Institute of Economic and Social Development, Argentina
- Dr Bila Sorj, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Dr Paola Jirón, University of Chile
- Dr Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck College, University of London
- Professor Maxine Molyneux, UCL Institute of the Americas
The video of this event available here:
Learn about the methodology here
Find out more about global and regional highlights from the Tracker in these factsheets.
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Links:
Latin American Countries and Women's Rights and Needs during the Pandemic - link to event page
Professor Nicola Miller - academic profile
Professor Maxine Molyneux - academic profile
Link to the UNDP COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker
Link to tracker's methodology notes
Images:
[top] Screengrab of actual data page of the Global Response Tracker
[bottom - left to right] Logos of the UNW, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL Institute of the Americas