On April 22, 2022, the Women and Gender in Global Affairs Network at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, together with the Permanent Missions of Sweden and Ukraine to the United Nations hosted an online discussion on “Responding to the Invasion of Ukraine: The Impact of Feminist Foreign Policies.”
The webinar intended to bring together policymakers, analysts, and practitioners to discuss concrete measures for feminist responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Moderated by Yasmine Ergas, Chair of the WGGA Network, the Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Gender and Public Policy Specialization, Columbia University, the event featured:
• Anna Karin Eneström, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the UN
• Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN
• Antje Leendertse, Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN
• Richard Arbeiter, Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the UN
• Oksana Pokalchuk, Executive Director of Amnesty International in Ukraine
• Oksana Potapova, Women’s rights and peace activist, feminist researcher, co-founder of “Theatre for Dialogue” NGO
• Åsa Regnér, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women
• Kateryna Levchenko, Government Commissioner for Gender Policy, Ukraine.
We want to recognize and give special thanks to our event hosts and co-sponsors for making this event possible.
Hosts: Permanent Missions of Sweden and Ukraine to the UN, and Columbia University’s Women and Gender in Global Affairs Network at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights.
Co-sponsors: Institute for the Study of Human Rights, UN Women, Permanent Missions of Canada and Germany to the UN and Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and School of International and Public Affairs' Gender and Public Policy Specialization, International Security Policy Concentration, the Kent Global Leadership Program on Conflict Resolution, the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Harriman Institute’s Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies.
