Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls 2023
Online Conference 26 January 2023, 9:00am - 3:00pm
#igppVAWAG
9:00am
Online Registration
9:30am
Chair's Welcome Address
Dr Emma Cunningham, Programme Leader for BA Criminology and Criminal Justice and BA Criminology and Law, University of East London
9:40am
Tackling Public Sexual Harassment: Progress To Date And What’s Needed Next?
Gemma Tutton, Co-founder, Our Streets Now, and Paola Uccellari, Policy & Advocacy Manager, Plan International UK
10:00am
How Inclusive Are We? Trans Inclusion And Intersectionality
Eva Echo, Activist, Ambassador, Blogger, Educator and Public Speaker
10:20am
Domestic Abuse in Later Life
- Lack of data
- Femicide in later life – what do we know
- What we are hearing at Age UK
- Trauma and mental health, the impact later in life
Carrie Bower, Safeguarding Manager & Domestic Abuse Lead, Age UK Safeguarding Team
10:40am
Question And Answer Session
11:00am
Break And Networking
11:30am
Keynote Address from IKWRO
- IKWRO's work supporting Middle Eastern, North African and Afghan women and girls living in the UK, who have experienced, or are at risk of all forms of “honour” based abuse
- Demands for justice for Mahsa Amini and an end to Iran’s “morality police"
- Listening to women's stories and inspiring hope
Diana Nammi, Founder and Chief Executive, IKWRO
11:50am
Childhood Trauma And Cultural Abuse
- Childhood trauma – seen and abused but not heard
- Cultural abuse in the South Asian community – shame and stigma
- How this intersects with the LGBTQIA+ community
- What inspires me today and being a proud shouty woman
Saba Ali, Global leader for Gender Equity and Hate Crime
12:10pm
Case Study: Raising Awareness Of Financial And Economic Abuse And Transforming Responses
- Understanding and addressing the issues and the link between economic stability and physical safety
- Using the insight of the Experts by Experience Group to help identify what tools and resources victims and survivors need
- Exploring the nature of economic abuse and its psychological impact
- Tackling serious financial obligations, debts and poor credit ratings which victims were not aware of until the relationship with the perpetrator ceased
- Assisting victims with access to income and secure, stable accommodation
Dr Nicola Sharp-Jeffs OBE, Founder and CEO, Surviving Economic Abuse
12:30pm
Questions And Answers Session
12:50pm
Lunch And Networking
1:40pm
Educational Session: Female Genital Mutilation
- What is FGM
- Complications and psychological effects
- The law in the UK and safeguarding
- Mandatory recording and reporting
Hoda Ali, Founding Trustee, The Vavengers
2:00pm
Keynote Address: Supporting Mental Health, Migrants and Asylum Seekers, and Access To Justice
Jayne Butler, CEO, Rape Crisis England and Wales
2:20pm
Questions And Answers Session
2:40pm
Chair's Summary And Close
3:00pm
Post-Event Recording: Naming The View
Jules Hobbs and Richard Curnow, Finding The Will