Webinar: Gender-Based Violence and Climate Change - Causes, Consequences and Solutions

This webinar was recorded on March 25, 2022. The purpose of this event was to address the issue of gender-based violence as exacerbated by climate related events through a panel of psychologists, social scientists, and advocates. Our panelists shared evidence on the causes, correlates and consequences of climate change involving gender-based violence against women and girls, and proposed recommendations for effectively alleviating it.

Speakers included: Dr. Nahid Rezwana, an Associate Professor at the University of Dhaka; Amy Gaman, the Executive Director of NURU International; Dr. Laura Gauer Bermudez, the Director of Evidence and Learning for the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; and Agnes "Aggie" Rieger, a clinical-community psychology PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The webinar was moderated by past SPSSI UN/NGO Intern Priyadharshany Sandanapitchai, a Clinical Psychology PhD student at Flinders University, and included an address by SPSSI UN/NGO Main Representative Dr. David Livert, a Professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University, Lehigh Valley. Thank you to SPSSI UN/NGO Intern Laura B. López-Aybar, a
Clinical Psychology Doctoral Candidate at the Derner School of Psychology, for organizing this event.

SPSSI has been represented as an NGO and has held consultative status with the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 1991 and with the UN's Department of Global Communications (DGC) since 1987.