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The Global Health calendar, or GH calendar, is a tool that will centralize information about events occurring worldwide related to Global Health, so you can easily access them and you don’t miss anything! The events will be published by us, but you can contribute in filling the calendar with GH events of your interest. We want this tool to be easily accessible, practical, updated and collaborative.

It is important to note that we do not organize the events found in this calendar. The ones organized by the Global Health Next Generation Network are found in Events.

This means that we cannot ensure that this events will happen, and we do not take responsibility if they are cancelled. We also want to make clear that we are not receiving any gains from promoting these events.

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Events in March 2021

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March 1, 2021(1 event)

6:00 pm: Decolonising the Curriculum and Racism in Academia


March 1, 2021

Title: Decolonising the Curriculum and Racism in Academia

Organizers: Gender Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva, Black Conversations

Description: From the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa and Oxford to the decolonisation work being done at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, efforts to decolonise the university have continued to grow across university campuses worldwide. However, what does decolonising the university mean, and how does this differ from diversity and inclusion projects?

Black Conversations have partnered with the Gender Centre to host Professor Kehinde Andrews lecture on "Decolonising the curriculum and Racism in Academia".

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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March 2, 2021
March 3, 2021
March 4, 2021(3 events)

2:00 pm: Disruptive Decision-Making: How Women Can Redefine Leadership for Better Outcomes on NCDs and COVID-19


March 4, 2021

Title: Disruptive Decision-Making: How Women Can Redefine Leadership for Better Outcomes on NCDs

Organizers: American Academy of Pediatrics

Description: As International Women’s Day approaches, join the Taskforce on Women and Non-Communicable Diseases for a webinar to:

  • Discuss the intersection of women and NCDs in the COVID-19 pandemic, including the multifaceted caregiver burden, mental health challenges, and health service disruptions that women and girls face.
  • Share examples of women in leadership at all levels of society and their valuable influence on decision-making to address the impact of the pandemic on NCDs among women and girls.
  • Strategize and identify key actions and policy interventions to be taken through a gender lens for the greater good, especially in ensuring women’s representation and participation in decision-making.

Language: ENG

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4:00 pm: Book Launch: The Security Sector and Health Crises


March 4, 2021

Title: Book Launch: The Security Sector and Health Crises

Organizers: Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva, Geneva Center for Security Sector Governance

Description: Book launch of The Security Sector and Health Crises, which draws lessons from over 30 international experts on the  Ebola crisis in West Africa to highlight opportunities for cooperation between the health and security sectors to successfully address global health crises.

Language: ENG

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4:00 pm: Borders in the Middle East: Past and Present


March 4, 2021

Title: Borders in the Middle East: Past and Present

Organizers: Graduate Institute, Geneva

Description: The CCDP and the University of Neuchâtel have the pleasure of inviting you to the second of a series of joint events showcasing the findings of the ERC consolidator grant: "Towards a Decentred History of the Middle East: Transborder Spaces, Circulations, Frontier Effects and State Formation, 1920-1946". The project, begun in 2017, is led by Prof. Jordi Tejel, Adjunct Professor with the Department of History at the University of Neuchâtel and CCDP Research Associate. This second online panel discussion will feature a presentation by Dr. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan, Boğaziçi University on “The Turkish-Syrian Border: The Making of a Post-Ottoman Illicit Zone”, as well as a presentation from Dr. Pınar Şenoğuz, University of Göttingen on "From Smugglers to Entrepreneurs: Sugar Trade and 'Fictitious' Exports at the Turkish-Syrian Border".

Language: ENG

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March 5, 2021
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March 8, 2021(2 events)

Global Health and Drug Policy

March 8, 2021 March 10, 2021

Title: Global Health and Drug Policy

Organizers: Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva

Description: In this 3-day course we will explore questions such as: What should the new direction post-2019 be for the future UN governance of international drug policy? How can different actors contribute to a global process in order to ensure that drug policies improve rather than harm the health and welfare of people? What should the role of civil society and user networks be in the international debate on drug policies?

Language: ENG

Registration: Fee CHF 1'200

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12:15 am: The Narrowing of the European Court of Human Rights? Legal Diplomacy, Situational Self-Restraint and Dejudicialisation


March 8, 2021

Title: The Narrowing of the European Court of Human Rights? Legal Diplomacy, Situational Self-Restraint and Dejudicialisation

Organizers: Global Governance Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva (part of ERC funded research project "The Paths of International Law"

Description: In recent years, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faced a growing number of challenges, stemming, among other reasons, from problems with the implementation of some of its judgments, an upsurge of sovereigntist sentiments in some member states and the rise of de facto illiberal democracies within its jurisdiction. This article examines the effects that these changing contexts have had on the operation of the ECtHR. In very general terms, the article finds that the ECtHR has become increasingly more restrained, but that this restraint plays out in multiple different ways which reflect the structural differences among the member states with regard to the protection of human rights. The article argues that the ECtHR has developed a new and differentiated legal rationality that combines elements of its original legal diplomacy with new forms of strategic deference and a different vision for its overarching role in the protection of European human rights. Overall, the result is a narrowing of the role of the Court.

Language: ENG

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March 9, 2021(1 event)

Global Health and Drug Policy

March 8, 2021 March 10, 2021

Title: Global Health and Drug Policy

Organizers: Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva

Description: In this 3-day course we will explore questions such as: What should the new direction post-2019 be for the future UN governance of international drug policy? How can different actors contribute to a global process in order to ensure that drug policies improve rather than harm the health and welfare of people? What should the role of civil society and user networks be in the international debate on drug policies?

Language: ENG

Registration: Fee CHF 1'200

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March 10, 2021(1 event)

Global Health and Drug Policy

March 8, 2021 March 10, 2021

Title: Global Health and Drug Policy

Organizers: Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva

Description: In this 3-day course we will explore questions such as: What should the new direction post-2019 be for the future UN governance of international drug policy? How can different actors contribute to a global process in order to ensure that drug policies improve rather than harm the health and welfare of people? What should the role of civil society and user networks be in the international debate on drug policies?

Language: ENG

Registration: Fee CHF 1'200

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March 11, 2021(3 events)

12:30 am: How to Eat in Palestine: Women, Nutrition, and the Settler Colonial Economy under the British Mandate (1920s-1940s)


March 11, 2021

Title: How to Eat in Palestine: Women, Nutrition, and the Settler Colonial Economy under the British Mandate (1920s-1940s)

Organizers: Gender Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva

Description: Under the British Mandate for Palestine (1920-1948) European Jews settled in the country in unprecedented numbers. Within this broader history of colonisation, asking what Jewish settlers ate there might not seem like a pressing matter. But for many Jewish experts in Palestine – including nutritionists, agronomists, economists, and others – promoting a proper diet among Jewish newcomers was not strictly a matter of public health, but rather a tool to support and sustain a growing settler-colonial economy in an expanding Jewish settlement.

Notably, women led many of the efforts to educate Jewish settlers on matters of consumption. Through food programmes, newspaper columns, radio shows, and cookbooks, female nutrition experts prescribed a diet that drew on nutritional science but was adapted to national goals. Bringing together food, physiques, and Zionist ideology, this presentation will highlight the political economy of nutrition and its value for the colonisation of Palestine.

Language: ENG

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11:30 am: Unconscious Gender Bias: What, Why and How to overcome it. A sociological perspective


March 11, 2021

Title: Unconscious Gender Bias: What, Why and How to overcome it. A sociological perspective

Organizers: PRBB Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee

Description: Are you more biased than you think? Don’t worry! Join us on the 11th March at 11’30 am when sociologist and gender expert Lidia Arroyo (UOC) will talk us through what unconscious bias really is, its origins, consequences and how to deal with it.

Language: ENG

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6:30 pm: Belly of the Beast (Film Screening)


March 11, 2021

Title: Belly of the Beast

Organizers: Graduate Institute Student Association (GISA), Human Rights, Conflict & Peace initiative and Gender Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva

Description: Belly of the Beast exposes modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons, through intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people.

Kelli Dillon, who was involuntarily sterilised at the age of 24 while incarcerated, teams up with Cynthia Chandler, a human rights lawyer, to fight for reproductive justice at the world’s largest women’s prison, the Central California Women’s Facility. As they prepare to take Kelli’s case to court, they uncover a wide range of crimes occurring within the facility – from inadequate access to healthcare to sexual assault to illegal sterilization – the latter largely perpetrated against the facility’s Black and Latinx populations.

Their joint efforts in exposing the atrocities carried out behind closed doors ultimately shed new, timely light on the systemic racism and violence impacting people of color in women’s prisons, in a fight for reparations and justice.

Language: ENG

Registration: Free

 

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March 12, 2021
March 13, 2021(1 event)

3:30 pm: Feminist Alternatives to the "New Normality"


March 13, 2021

Title: Feminist Alternatives to the "New Normality"

Organizers: Global Tapestry of Alternatives

Description: Global Tapestry of Alternatives is holding a virtual assembly, which  will bring together members of different feminist movements, organizations and collectives from the “Global South” to continue amplifying grassroots feminist alternatives that emerged during the pandemic and collectively explore how to build and consolidate feminist economies and societies centered around care and the sustainability of life.

Language: ENG and SPA

Registration: Free/ Registration available but not necessary

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March 14, 2021
March 15, 2021
March 16, 2021(3 events)

All day: Beyond the Pandemic HERE Conference – What next?

All day
March 16, 2021 March 18, 2021

Title: Beyond the Pandemic HERE Conference – What next?

Organizers: Humanitarian Exchange and Research Centre (HERE) Geneva

Description: The humanitarian sector has not been short of reform or change efforts over the years. At the core of each attempt has been the aim to do better, to reach those most affected by crisis in a timely manner with the assistance and protection they need. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in another layer of policy and operational reckoning. It has pushed humanitarians to question, adapt and at times transform their approaches and ways of working. It is intervening at a time of broader questions around structural power imbalances and the role of humanitarians in addressing the climate crisis. It is also accelerating change processes already under way. It is too early to tell what changes are here to stay. What is clear, however, is that it is up to the humanitarian sector to leverage this moment of global crisis to exert the type of transformative change it may really need.

Through the conference, HERE would like to use the preliminary findings of its research project “Beyond the pandemic” to move collectively from analysis to solutions. If we have a good idea of what does not work, how do we make change happen? What needs to be integrated into current global policy processes? The true value of an ecosystem is its diversity of views. HERE is therefore not looking for the ideal solution but it rather believes in creating the opportunity to bring different visions together to map alternative ways forward.

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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11:00 am: Labour market effects of the COVID-19 pandemic


March 16, 2021

Title:Labour market effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Organizers: Pompeu Fabra University

Language: ENG

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5:30 pm: Building Back Better: a global look at Feminist COVID-19 recovery plans


March 16, 2021

Title: Building Back Better: a global look at Feminist COVID-19 recovery plans

Organizers: Pompeu Fabra University

Language: ENG

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March 17, 2021(4 events)

All day: Beyond the Pandemic HERE Conference – What next?

All day
March 16, 2021 March 18, 2021

Title: Beyond the Pandemic HERE Conference – What next?

Organizers: Humanitarian Exchange and Research Centre (HERE) Geneva

Description: The humanitarian sector has not been short of reform or change efforts over the years. At the core of each attempt has been the aim to do better, to reach those most affected by crisis in a timely manner with the assistance and protection they need. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in another layer of policy and operational reckoning. It has pushed humanitarians to question, adapt and at times transform their approaches and ways of working. It is intervening at a time of broader questions around structural power imbalances and the role of humanitarians in addressing the climate crisis. It is also accelerating change processes already under way. It is too early to tell what changes are here to stay. What is clear, however, is that it is up to the humanitarian sector to leverage this moment of global crisis to exert the type of transformative change it may really need.

Through the conference, HERE would like to use the preliminary findings of its research project “Beyond the pandemic” to move collectively from analysis to solutions. If we have a good idea of what does not work, how do we make change happen? What needs to be integrated into current global policy processes? The true value of an ecosystem is its diversity of views. HERE is therefore not looking for the ideal solution but it rather believes in creating the opportunity to bring different visions together to map alternative ways forward.

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

Online

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All day: Feminism, Gender, and (Historical) Science and Technology Studies

All day
March 17, 2021 March 19, 2021

Title: Feminism, Gender, and (Historical) Science and Technology Studies

Organizers: Interdisziplinäre Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (IZWT), University of Wuppertal

Description: In 1978 the women’s studies journal Signs published a special issue “women, science, and society” – a milestone in the formation of a broad and heterogeneous body of work dedicated to the role of gender in the production, dissemination, and application of “scientific knowledge” and “technology”. This interdisciplinary workshop investigates the history of feminist science and technology studies, situating its emergence and development in the context of second wave feminism, Cold War social science, and critical environmentalism. At the same time, its participants examine for a variety of different fields and research objects, the impact of gendered distributions of labor, of heteronormative images of “nature”, or of ideals of masculinity in the construction of
scientists’ bodies and “scientificity” itself. Moreover, they reflect how feminist perspectives provide tools and spaces for thinking and doing science and technology “otherwise”. Topics of the different panels also include food (science), ecology, and disaster. A special focus will be on intersectional approaches that explore how gender is co-constructed and interacts with other categories and axis of difference and inequality, such as race, age or able-bodiedness, and on queer, as well as post- and decolonial perspectives. 

Language: ENG

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3:00 pm: Promoting Health through Sustainable Urban Development


March 17, 2021

Title: Promoting Health through Sustainable Urban Development

Organizers: Barcelona Global Health Institute (ISGlobal), LSHTM - Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health and  Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Description: The programme is aimed at strengthening the field of Planetary Health, particularly within Europe, by bringing together stakeholders from academia, government, and civil society. The initiative builds on previous activities including the EU meeting “The Europe that Protects: Safeguarding our Planet, Safeguarding our Health” hold in Dec 2020 in Helsinki, as well as the “Horizon 2020 HERA Research agenda for the Environment, Climate & Health 2020-2030”.

Language: ENG

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4:00 pm: Risk factors for Depression and Anxiety during the Pandemic


March 17, 2021

Title: Risk factors for Depression and Anxiety during the Pandemic

Organizers: Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR)

Description: Depression was already the second leading cause of global burden of disease before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic almost one year ago. Mental health conditions were associated with global economic costs rising to U$S 1 trillion per year. These estimates are expected to further increase in the current context and have an unprecedented impact on an already overstretched healthcare system. Identifying preventable risk factors for depression and other mental health conditions has the potential to help reduce this burden and improve the mental wellbeing of all citizens.

Higher rates of anxiety and depression can be directly associated with the infection in a part of the population that experiences increased fear of getting infected, contagion or uncertainty regarding the course of the treatment. But the largest impact of the pandemic will be indirect, and associated with stressors originating from the significant disruptions in living and socioeconomic conditions including enforced isolation, domestic violence, financial burden and wider environmental factors such as lack of access to green spaces. In this seminar we will discuss these expectations based on the social determinants of mental health model and results of the CoviCat study.

Language: ENG

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March 18, 2021(3 events)

All day: Beyond the Pandemic HERE Conference – What next?

All day
March 16, 2021 March 18, 2021

Title: Beyond the Pandemic HERE Conference – What next?

Organizers: Humanitarian Exchange and Research Centre (HERE) Geneva

Description: The humanitarian sector has not been short of reform or change efforts over the years. At the core of each attempt has been the aim to do better, to reach those most affected by crisis in a timely manner with the assistance and protection they need. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in another layer of policy and operational reckoning. It has pushed humanitarians to question, adapt and at times transform their approaches and ways of working. It is intervening at a time of broader questions around structural power imbalances and the role of humanitarians in addressing the climate crisis. It is also accelerating change processes already under way. It is too early to tell what changes are here to stay. What is clear, however, is that it is up to the humanitarian sector to leverage this moment of global crisis to exert the type of transformative change it may really need.

Through the conference, HERE would like to use the preliminary findings of its research project “Beyond the pandemic” to move collectively from analysis to solutions. If we have a good idea of what does not work, how do we make change happen? What needs to be integrated into current global policy processes? The true value of an ecosystem is its diversity of views. HERE is therefore not looking for the ideal solution but it rather believes in creating the opportunity to bring different visions together to map alternative ways forward.

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

Online

More information

All day: Feminism, Gender, and (Historical) Science and Technology Studies

All day
March 17, 2021 March 19, 2021

Title: Feminism, Gender, and (Historical) Science and Technology Studies

Organizers: Interdisziplinäre Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (IZWT), University of Wuppertal

Description: In 1978 the women’s studies journal Signs published a special issue “women, science, and society” – a milestone in the formation of a broad and heterogeneous body of work dedicated to the role of gender in the production, dissemination, and application of “scientific knowledge” and “technology”. This interdisciplinary workshop investigates the history of feminist science and technology studies, situating its emergence and development in the context of second wave feminism, Cold War social science, and critical environmentalism. At the same time, its participants examine for a variety of different fields and research objects, the impact of gendered distributions of labor, of heteronormative images of “nature”, or of ideals of masculinity in the construction of
scientists’ bodies and “scientificity” itself. Moreover, they reflect how feminist perspectives provide tools and spaces for thinking and doing science and technology “otherwise”. Topics of the different panels also include food (science), ecology, and disaster. A special focus will be on intersectional approaches that explore how gender is co-constructed and interacts with other categories and axis of difference and inequality, such as race, age or able-bodiedness, and on queer, as well as post- and decolonial perspectives. 

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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All day: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Northeast Regional Conference

All day
March 18, 2021 March 19, 2021

Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Northeast Regional Conference

Organizers: ICMA

Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers.

In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:

  • Adressing Racial, Structural and Systemic Inequities
  • Civic Health
  • Economic Restoration
  • Future of Work
  • Leadership
  • Service Delivery Transformation
  • Threats and Emergencies
  • Transformative Technologies

Language: ENG

Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register

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March 19, 2021(2 events)

All day: Feminism, Gender, and (Historical) Science and Technology Studies

All day
March 17, 2021 March 19, 2021

Title: Feminism, Gender, and (Historical) Science and Technology Studies

Organizers: Interdisziplinäre Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung (IZWT), University of Wuppertal

Description: In 1978 the women’s studies journal Signs published a special issue “women, science, and society” – a milestone in the formation of a broad and heterogeneous body of work dedicated to the role of gender in the production, dissemination, and application of “scientific knowledge” and “technology”. This interdisciplinary workshop investigates the history of feminist science and technology studies, situating its emergence and development in the context of second wave feminism, Cold War social science, and critical environmentalism. At the same time, its participants examine for a variety of different fields and research objects, the impact of gendered distributions of labor, of heteronormative images of “nature”, or of ideals of masculinity in the construction of
scientists’ bodies and “scientificity” itself. Moreover, they reflect how feminist perspectives provide tools and spaces for thinking and doing science and technology “otherwise”. Topics of the different panels also include food (science), ecology, and disaster. A special focus will be on intersectional approaches that explore how gender is co-constructed and interacts with other categories and axis of difference and inequality, such as race, age or able-bodiedness, and on queer, as well as post- and decolonial perspectives. 

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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All day: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Northeast Regional Conference

All day
March 18, 2021 March 19, 2021

Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Northeast Regional Conference

Organizers: ICMA

Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers.

In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:

  • Adressing Racial, Structural and Systemic Inequities
  • Civic Health
  • Economic Restoration
  • Future of Work
  • Leadership
  • Service Delivery Transformation
  • Threats and Emergencies
  • Transformative Technologies

Language: ENG

Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register

Online

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March 20, 2021(1 event)

All day: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

All day
March 20, 2021

Title: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

Organizers: NGO CSW65 (civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)).

Description: Events of the day:

Language: ENG

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March 21, 2021
March 22, 2021(5 events)

All day: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

All day
March 22, 2021

Title: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

Organizers: NGO CSW65 (civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)).

Description: Events of the day:

Language: ENG

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1:00 pm: Global Health Festival


March 22, 2021

Title: Global Health Festival

Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF)

Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:

  • Let's Talk About Mental Health

Language: ARAB

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1:15 pm: Latinamerica Congress for Planetary Health


March 22, 2021

Title: Congreso Latinoamericano de Salud Planetaria

Organizers: Universidad de Costa Rica

Description: A 100% virtual congress organized from Costa Rica for Latin America, with the aim of uniting knowledge about the planet, the human being and their well-being. 

Language: ESP

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register here

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5:00 pm: Global Health Festival


March 22, 2021

Title: Global Health Festival

Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF)

Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:

  • 3 Teaspoons of Sugar (2019) -> The beautifully animated “3 Teaspoons of Sugar” depicts the experiences of members of a family that are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Available from Monday 22nd - Wednesday 24th March, starting the discussion at 5 PM on Monday.

Language: ENG

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6:30 pm: Women delivering justice: What's holding them back?


March 22, 2021

Title: Women delivering justice: What's holding them back?

Organizers: SNF-funded research project "Diversity on the International Bench: Building Legitimacy for International Courts and Tribunals", in collaboration with Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Graduate Institute Geneva

Description: This event is part of the Public Lecture Series "Women's Voices in the International Judiciary".

Language: ENG

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March 23, 2021(4 events)

All day: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

All day
March 23, 2021

Title: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

Organizers: NGO CSW65 (civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)).

Description: Events of the day:

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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1:30 pm: Latinamerica Congress for Planetary Health


March 23, 2021

Title: Congreso Latinoamericano de Salud Planetaria

Organizers: Universidad de Costa Rica

Description: A 100% virtual congress organized from Costa Rica for Latin America, with the aim of uniting knowledge about the planet, the human being and their well-being. 

Language: ESP

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register here

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2:00 pm: Gender Equal Health and Care Workforce: Enabling Women to Lead


March 23, 2021

Title: Gender Equal Health and Care Workforce: Enabling Women to Lead

Organizers: Gender Equal Health and Care Workforce Initiative (GEHCWI)

Description: The session aims to contribute insights into the status of women’s leadership in health and care and feasible policy interventions to ensure a more gender-equitable and representative leadership. This session will also present the state of women’s leadership in health and care sectors, including in response to the COVID19 pandemic. A high-level interactive panel discussion will explore opportunities to advance women’s leadership in the health and care workforce.

This session supports the Priority theme of CSW65 - Women's full and effective participation and decision-making in public life along with the first pillar of the GEHCWI which is to increase the proportion of women leaders in health and care roles and one of the key policy areas of WHO GHWN GEH on gender & leadership in the health workforce. It also supports 2021 as the International Year of Health and Care Workers, designated by the World Health Assembly in November 2020.

Language: ENG

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2:00 pm: Global Health Festival


March 23, 2021

Title: Global Health Festival

Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF)

Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:

  • A conversation on... Non-Communicable Diseases (Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Scotland)

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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March 24, 2021(3 events)

All day: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

All day
March 24, 2021

Title: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

Organizers: NGO CSW65 (civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)).

Description: Events of the day:

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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1:00 pm: Global Health Festival


March 24, 2021

Title: Global Health Festival

Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF)

Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:

  • Let's talk about Non-Communicable Diseases 

Language: ARAB

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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3:00 pm: Catalyzing Demand for Planetary Health in Europe


March 24, 2021

Title: Catalyzing Demand for Planetary Health in Europe

Organizers: Barcelona Global Health Institute (ISGlobal), LSHTM - Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health and  Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Description: The programme is aimed at strengthening the field of Planetary Health, particularly within Europe, by bringing together stakeholders from academia, government, and civil society. The initiative builds on previous activities including the EU meeting “The Europe that Protects: Safeguarding our Planet, Safeguarding our Health” hold in Dec 2020 in Helsinki, as well as the “Horizon 2020 HERA Research agenda for the Environment, Climate & Health 2020-2030”.

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

Online

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March 25, 2021(6 events)

All day: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference

All day
March 25, 2021

Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference

Organizers: ICMA

Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers.

In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:

  • Adressing Racial, Structural and Systemic Inequities
  • Civic Health
  • Economic Restoration
  • Future of Work
  • Leadership
  • Service Delivery Transformation
  • Threats and Emergencies
  • Transformative Technologies

Language: ENG

Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register

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All day: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Mountain Plains Regional Conference

All day
March 25, 2021 March 26, 2021

Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Mountain Plains Regional Conference

Organizers: ICMA

Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers.

In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:

  • Adressing Racial, Structural and Systemic Inequities
  • Civic Health
  • Economic Restoration
  • Future of Work
  • Leadership
  • Service Delivery Transformation
  • Threats and Emergencies
  • Transformative Technologies

Language: ENG

Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register

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All day: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: West Coast Regional Conference

All day
March 25, 2021 March 26, 2021

Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: West Coast Regional Conference

Organizers: ICMA

Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers.

In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:

  • Adressing Racial, Structural and Systemic Inequities
  • Civic Health
  • Economic Restoration
  • Future of Work
  • Leadership
  • Service Delivery Transformation
  • Threats and Emergencies
  • Transformative Technologies

Language: ENG

Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register

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All day: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

All day
March 25, 2021

Title: NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum

Organizers: NGO CSW65 (civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)).

Description: Events of the day:

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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2:00 pm: Green Talks: International Trade and the Circular Economy


March 25, 2021

Title: International Trade and the Circular Economy

Organizers: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Description: A circular economy aims to transform the current linear economy into a circular model to reduce consumption of finite material resources by recovering materials from waste streams for recycling or reuse, using products longer, and exploiting the potential of the sharing and services economy. Circular economy policies and initiatives largely take place domestically at the national or regional level. However, they have important interlinkages with international trade.

International trade plays an important role in circular supply chains in materials and products, end-of-life value chains in waste and scrap, secondary raw materials and second-hand goods. In this light, how can trade contribute to a more resource efficient and circular economy? How would the circular economy transition have an impact on global trade patterns? And in what ways can we secure coherence in these two policy areas?

Join Shunta Yamaguchi and Rob Dellink of the OECD Environment Directorate on 25 March at 15:00 CET to discuss the role of international trade in the transition to a resource efficient and circular economy. The presentation highlights findings from a series of recent OECD reports, including: “The Consequences of a More Resource Efficient and Circular Economy for International Trade Patterns” and “International Trade and Circular Economy: Policy Alignment”.

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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5:00 pm: Global Health Festival


March 25, 2021

Title: Global Health Festival

Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF)

Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:

  • When It's Risky... COVID-19 and Diabetes (2021) --> The charming animation “When It's Risky” investigates how those with Type 2 diabetes are coping during the Covid-19 pandemic. Available from Thursday 25th - Saturday 27th March, starting the discussion at 5 PM on Thursday

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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March 26, 2021(4 events)

All day: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Mountain Plains Regional Conference

All day
March 25, 2021 March 26, 2021

Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: Mountain Plains Regional Conference

Organizers: ICMA

Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers.

In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:

  • Adressing Racial, Structural and Systemic Inequities
  • Civic Health
  • Economic Restoration
  • Future of Work
  • Leadership
  • Service Delivery Transformation
  • Threats and Emergencies
  • Transformative Technologies

Language: ENG

Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register

Online

More information

All day: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: West Coast Regional Conference

All day
March 25, 2021 March 26, 2021

Title: 2021 ICMA's International Regional Conference: West Coast Regional Conference

Organizers: ICMA

Description: Every year, members and nonmembers of ICMA attend the ICMA Regional Conferences to share lessons learned and explore strategies and best practices for advancing the local government profession. The event is an opportunity to be inspired, build skills, network with colleagues, and develop meaningful relationships with your local government peers.

In 2021, the ICMA Regional Conferences will be going virtual and will provide a space for local government professionals of all career stages to come together for discussions that focus on tools, processes, and leading practices in the long-term, equitable recovery and transformation of local government management and communities. Topics:

  • Adressing Racial, Structural and Systemic Inequities
  • Civic Health
  • Economic Restoration
  • Future of Work
  • Leadership
  • Service Delivery Transformation
  • Threats and Emergencies
  • Transformative Technologies

Language: ENG

Registration: $299 (no members) with access to all conferences/ Need to previous register

Online

More information

2:00 pm: Global Health Festival


March 26, 2021

Title: Global Health Festival

Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF)

Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:

  • A conversation on... Mental Health (Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Scotland)

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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6:30 pm: Global Health Festival


March 26, 2021

Title: Global Health Festival

Organizers: NIHR Research Unit on Health in Situations of Fragility (RUHF)

Description: Talks, screenings and videos around Global Health topics. Events of the day:

  • El Susto/ "The Shock" (2019) --> An enthralling documentary film exploring the public health crisis surrounding sugar and Type 2 diabetes in Mexico. Movie screening and panel discussion with director Karen Atkins and the people making a difference for the health of their communities. Available all week, starting the discussion at 6.30 PM on Friday.

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register

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March 27, 2021(1 event)

6:30 pm: Dutch Global Health Film Festival


March 27, 2021

Title: Dutch Global Health Film Festival

Organizers: Global Health Film

Description: Movie "Thank you for the Rain", directed by Julia Dahr.

Five years ago Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, started to use his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the damages of climate change. When a violent storm throws him and a Norwegian filmmaker together we see him transform from a father, to community leader to an
activist on the global stage.

Language: ENG

Registration: Free/ Need to previous register. Outside The Netherlands the movie is not accessible, discussion after the screening open to all (registration here)

 

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March 28, 2021
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April 1, 2021(1 event)

12:30 am: How to (not?) know the Ethiopian Woman and her Hidden Desires


April 1, 2021

Title: How to (not?) know the Ethiopian Woman and her Hidden Desires

Organizers: Gender Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva

Description: In this talk, Serawit B. Debele juxtaposes two divergent archives to think about how the female body is produced through discourses on sexual desire. On one hand, she focuses on Wendy Belcher’s and Michael Kleiner’s controversial translation of a hagiography of a female patron saint from the 16th century. On another, she looks at magazines – which exclusively focused on women and sex – that were produced in the first few years of regime change in Ethiopia in 1991.

Language: ENG

Registration: Free

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April 2, 2021
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