Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection
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UNHCR has established an Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement, and Protection to provide a cross-disciplinary forum to advance gender equality, prevent and respond effectively to sexual and gender-based violence, and empower women and girls to assume leadership roles in their communities.
The specific aims of the Advisory Group are to: engage experts from outside the humanitarian field to serve as a consultative group on a range of issues relating to gender and protection in forced displacement contexts; strategize with UNHCR on developing innovative ways to mitigate protection risks, bolster capacity, and improve protection programming; and advise UNHCR on principled yet practical solutions to specific protection challenges, which will be identified as the focus for discussion at each annual meeting.
The Advisory Group is comprised of twenty-one social visionaries, change-makers, and civil society leaders from around the world. The distinguished group reflect broad geographic experience and draw from such diverse fields as anthropology, development economics, education, gender studies, health, human rights, justice, religion, and sociology. Through their work with communities, members have addressed challenging issues such as domestic violence, homophobia, xenophobia, and the marginalization of women. Members serve on this high-level Advisory Group for a period of two years, with the possibility of extension.
UNHCR’s Advisory Group held its inaugural meeting on Friday, 12 February 2016. Advisors will be engaged in various aspects of UNHCR’s work, including through participation in key events and working with UNHCR to support initiatives on issues where the members have a particular interest and expertise.
Photos of the advisory group reception evening on the eve of the inaugural meeting on 11 February 2016
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Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner Volker Türk, (at right), talking with advisory group member Gary Barker, from USA at center. © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner Volker Türk, talking with advisory group member Shereen El Feki, from the United Kingdom. © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. From right to left, advisory group members Dubravka Šimonovic, from Croatia, speaking; Kah Walla, from Cameroon; Amira Yahyaoui, from Tunisia; Sima Samar, from Afghanistan; Patricia Sellers, from Belgium. © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. Gary Barker, from USA; with fellow advisory group members Shereen El Feki, from the United Kingdom; Marina Mahathir from Malaysia. © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. From left, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner, Volker Türk; UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi; Ambassador Pamela Hamamoto, Permanent Representative of the USA,and advisory group members Pablo Collada, from Mexico; Victor Ochen from Uganda © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi meeting Pablo Collada, from Mexico. © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi meeting Patricia Sellers, from Belgium. © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. Advisory group members Kah Walla at left and Obiageli Ezekwesili at right © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. From right to left, advisory group members Amira Yahyaoui, from Tunisia; Sima Samar, from Afghanistan; Patricia Sellers, from Belgium; Gary Barker, from USA. © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner Volker Türk, UNHCR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi (centrer) talking with advisory group member Sima Samar, from Afghanistan. © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. Advisory Group member Asma Jahangir, from Pakistan speaking , with on her left Kim Thuy Seelinger, from USA, and on her right Jacqueline Bhabha, from USA.;Victor Ochen from Uganda. © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Reception in honour of members of UNHCR's inaugural Advisory Group on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection. UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner, Volker Turk in discussion with advisory group members Victor Ochen from Uganda and Marina Mahathir from Malaysia. © UNHCR/M.Henley -
Advisory group members on Gender, Forced Displacement and Protection meet with the High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Volker Türk, and US Ambassador Pamela Hamamoto on the eve of the group's inaugural meeting. © UNHCR/M.Henley
