Towards better understanding of transactional sex in humanitarian crises

To celebrate the completion of this project, the ListenH team is organizing this hybrid event to highlight the project's successes.

Aimed at scholars and practitioners in the fields of migration, gender, sexuality and humanitarian action, the event aims to highlight and encourage dialogue around these the project's findings and develop and strengthen relevant networks.

Times

09:00-11:00 COT
16:00-18:00 CEST and CAT
19:00-21:00 PKT

Programme (tentative)

Introducing the ListenH research

16:00-16:05 – Welcome by Professor Ruard Ganzevoort
16:05-16:10 – The ListenH study: rationale and aims  - Professor Thea Hilhorst
16:10-16:15 – Promises and challenges of ListenH’s participatory methodology by Dr Silke Heumann
16:15-16:20 – Musical interlude by Mohammad Javad Imani Khoshkhoo

ListenH highlights

16:20-16:35 – María Inés Cubides Kovacsics & Matilde Lucía Carrillo Bastardo on ListenH Colombian final report / discussant Maria Wagner, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
16:35-16:50 – Saba Gul Khattak & Noreen Naseer on photobook 'Giving voice to silence' / discussant Jet Bastiani, Plan International
16:50-17:05 – 16:50-17:05 – Marie Rose Bashwira on 'Survival in the Shadows: Transactional Sex, Humanitarian Crisis, and the Politics of Aid in Eastern DRC’ / discussant Francesca Paola Crabu, UN Inter-Agency Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
17:05-17:20 – Clea Kahn on the technical dialogue on transactional sex in forced displacement and humanitarian settings / discussant Maria Carolina Aissa de Figueredo, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Reflections

17:20-17:35 – Q&A
17:35-17:45 – Musical interlude by Mohammad Javad Imani Khoshkhoo
17:45-17:55 – Opening mini exhibition 'Giving voice to silence' by Nayab Kanwal
17:55-18:00 – Concluding remarks by Dr Karin Astrid Siegmann
From 18:00  – Informal celebration at the Butterfly Bar