This brown-bag lunch series is a collaboration with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the NYU School of Law, the Office for International Programs at the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and the Master’s Program in Global Public Health.

It examines new research, creative policy approaches, and recent innovations in addressing security and development challenges in conflict and post-conflict
contexts.

Location: NYU Wagner at the Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor

Gender-Based Violence and Access to Food and Water in Humanitarian Crises: Is there a Connection?

Meg Satterthwaite, faculty director, CHRGJ; professor, the Global Justice Clinic

What on-the-ground progress has been made since the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti in early 2010? This discussion will cover a one-year study aimed to identify links between access to basic resources and increased vulnerability to gender-based violence for
residents living in Port-au-Prince camps for the internally displaced. Satterthwaite will present key findings of the project, which will be made public in a fall 2011 report, as well as recommendations resulting from the research, aimed at both to the international community and the government of Haiti.