International Conference on Engaging Youth in Ending Gender-Based Violence 2019 in Dhaka

International Conference on Engaging Youth in Ending Gender-Based Violence 2019 in Dhaka.

This conference will bring together students, lawyers, researchers, government officials, service providers, paralegals, community leaders and activists to discuss the experiences of youth engagement on ending Gender-Based Violence.

The Conference will open with a review of challenges and opportunities youth engagement to end gender-based violence through the Inaugural Ceremony.

In Session 1, speakers will focus on the basic concept of Gender-Based Violence and the situational analysis from national to a regional perspective. Along with that the legal rights and mechanism, legal service bodies, providing legal awareness, advice and information, and access to remedies at the community level and city or national level.

In Session 2, speakers will highlight multi-sectoral youth interventions from social, legal and media perspective, which further secure access to justice to end gender-based violence.

In Session 3, will focus on sharing the best practices from regional to the national level in combating GBV.

The outcome of the sessions will emphasize the need to build and pursue regional networks and alliances for greater impact in ending gender-based violence and securing sustainable development goals. In the closing session, a summary of agreed recommendations will be presented on collaboration and commitments towards furthering the achievement of ending gender-based violence.

Conference Aims:
 To share youth experiences about systems and processes for ensuring access to justice on gender-based violence;
 To understand how multi-sectoral youth interventions – on healthcare, social security, community solidarity building, – can increase to ending gender-based violence;
 To build cross-regional learning, and on how youth engagement can strengthen to ending gender-based violence;
 To build knowledge of successful challenges to discriminatory laws, policies and procedures which institutionalize discrimination and obstruct to end gender-based, and of legal empowerment, strategies to implement progressive laws.

Expected Outcomes:
The conference will result in an overall assessment of the status of Gender-Based Violence & Youth Engagement in the participating countries, with a focus on strategies, and innovations including changes in the legal or policy frameworks. It will provide a platform to map out the challenges and evaluate successes.

About Organizers:
Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is an American nonprofit organization founded in 2001 by Dr Mary Shuttleworth, an educator born and raised in apartheid South Africa, where she witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of discrimination and the lack of basic human rights.

The purpose of YHRI is to teach youth about human rights, specifically the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and inspire them to become advocates for tolerance and peace. YHRI has now grown into a global movement, including hundreds of groups, clubs and chapters around the world.

Youth for Human Rights International teaches human rights education both in the classroom and in nontraditional educational settings. They aim to reach people from diverse backgrounds, with materials which often appeal across generations. By teaching human rights through all means—from conferences and workshops to hip-hop and dancing—this message has spread around the world.