SIG/ISHR Panel Discussion

Gender, Human Rights, Disability Rights, and Social Work: Insights for Practice in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Featuring three leading human rights advocates:

• TAMAR IVANIADZE, Co-founder and Chairperson of Initiative for Social Changes, a leading non-profit organization in Tbilisi, Georgia, fighting to protect the human rights of children, youth, and women.
• FRANCIS BICHNORD ASONG, Executive Director of VOICE Ghana, an NGO that promotes access to quality education for children with disabilities and works as a capacity-building organization for all disability self-help groups and disabled people’s organizations at the grassroots level in Ghana.
• SAMUEL MATSIKURE, Programmes Manager of GALZ, a 30-year-old community-based association that aims to represent, protect and promote the rights of LGBTI people in Zimbabwe. Matsikure has held a leadership position in the organization for the last 18 years and been a member for the last 28 years.

Moderated by
ANINDITA DASGUPTA (bio), Associate Research Scientist, Social Intervention Group (SIG), Columbia School of Social Work

DATE: April 21, 2021
TIME: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EDT

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; ONLINE ONLY (VIA ZOOM);
REGISTRATION REQUIRED