Saturday, 12 March 2022

Gender and Older People: Research paper and online event

CENDEP Director, Dr Supriya Akerkar’s ‘Gender and Older People’ has recently been published (link here) which was undertaken for the Programme and Ageing Unit (PAU), United Nation Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).

Supriya has also been invited as one of the panellists for a virtual event ‘Shameful Contrast: Inequality at the Intersection of Age and Gender’ on Tuesday, March 15 (8:00-9:30 am ET OR 12:00-1:30 pm, UK time). The event places a spotlight on older women and aims to transform political momentum into action that will empower older women and further promote gender equality.

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Welcome to the 20th Oxford Human Rights Festival

The Oxford Human Rights Festival launches on the 11th March with the annual Nabeel Hamdi Lecture given by Yasmeen Lari, the first female architect in Pakistan and the recent recipient of the prestigious Fukuoka Prize (2016) and the Jane Drew Prize (2020), the latter awarded by the Architect's Journal in honour of the English modernist architect, Jane Drew.


Dr Supriya Akerkar, the new Director of Centre of Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) has this to say about the festival this year,