UN WOMEN -
NOW MORE THAN EVER
The COVID-19 Pandemic has millions worldwide staying home. The Gulf Coast Chapter invites us all to use this difficult time to connect - to each other and to other women around the globe.
Women Refugees
For the 26 million refugees worldwide, 70 million forcibly displaced persons, and 258 million migrants, home is transient and unstable. This presents particular challenges in the face of a pandemic. In countries with active conflict, mitigating the spread of COVID-19 is incredibly difficult as living conditions are crowded and health services are lacking.
Sixty percent of preventable maternal deaths take place in humanitarian settings, and one in five displaced women experience sexual violence.
Refugee and migrant women are often first responders in a crisis. In Laylan Camp in Iraq, women sewed 400 masks to protect women providers. UN Women is working to inform, protect and support women through the pandemic. Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh have organized a network to educate women and girls about keeping safe and avoiding infection.
GCC Community Connections
- Online!
Let's learn together.
GCC Member Conversations
1.) Gender and Refugees: Join us from 2 - 3 p.m. Thursday, May 7, online for a GCC Member Conversation about global refugees.
Click on this Zoom link at 2 p.m. on May 7:
Join Conversation.
Guest host: Dr. Jody L. McBrien, Professor at USF, with an interest in refugee studies and human rights and migration at USF.
About Jody.
Jody will share a 10 minute presentation, "Beyond Survival: Helping Refugees to Thrive."
She will then moderate an open group discussion on the topic
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Learn more about this issue through these links:
- UN refugee agency "rapidly adjusting" the it works amid COVID_19 pandemic: UNORG.
- The New Yorker: The Dangers of COVID-19 For Refugees: NYer.
2.) LGBTQ Protections Around the Globe: Join us f
rom 2 - 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, online for a GCC Member Conversation on this issue.
Click on this Zoom link at 2 p.m. on May 13:
Join Conversation.
Host: Selisse Berry, Founder of Out and Equ
al Workplace Advocates, the world's largest non-governme
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al organization specifically dedicated to creating safe and equitable workplaces for LGBTQ people. About Selisse.
GCC Book Club
May selection:
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste.
Book Club Meeting 2:30 - 4 p.m., Monday May 11.
Meeting will either be at the Betty Johnson Library OR virtually on Zoom. Watch this space for update.
GCC Chapter Members
Enjoy a Second Showing of Select TWE Films!
Some of our filmmakers have made their films available to our GCC Chapter members for an encore showing.
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