IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster (@ucl_gd) 's Twitter Profile
IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster

@ucl_gd

Based at @UCLIRDR, the centre aims to develop awareness of, and responsiveness to, gender equality in @DRR in research and teaching gdnonline.org @GRRIPP

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linkhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/research/centre-gender-and-disaster calendar_today15-02-2018 16:18:37

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Join us this Friday to celebrate #WorldEssentialWorkersDay with a special event on front-line care workers during the pandemic! Online and in-person, registration required: ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-…

Join us this Friday to celebrate #WorldEssentialWorkersDay with a special event on front-line care workers during the pandemic!

Online and in-person, registration required:
ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-…
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30 minutes to go! 🚨Essential yet exploited? Invisibilised frontline workers during the pandemic 🚨 It's not too late to join us online: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

30 minutes to go!

🚨Essential yet exploited? Invisibilised frontline workers during the pandemic 🚨

It's not too late to join us online: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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Thank you to everyone who came along to our 🥳 6th birthday 🥳 event exploring care and domestic work in the pandemic and thank you to our amazing guest speakers from United Voices of the World & IWGB: Isobel, Bella and Henry! A great turn out and a great discussion!

Thank you to everyone who came along to our   🥳 6th birthday 🥳 event exploring care and domestic work in the pandemic and thank you to our amazing guest speakers from <a href="/UVWunion/">United Voices of the World</a> &amp; <a href="/IWGBunion/">IWGB</a>: Isobel, Bella and Henry!

A great turn out and a great discussion!
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You can tell by the HUGE GRIN that I am proud to rep my union United Voices of the World and speak alongside Bella, the amazing care worker, who with her colleague’s took strike action in the harshest of conditions during a global pandemic.

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I presented my operational definition of #labourexploitation (tinyurl.com/yc4tp6bm) & Acciari & I's work on care workers'conditions & health IRDR Centre for Gender and Disaster panel. The brilliant Bella Ruiz & Isabel Cortes United Voices of the World & Henry Lopez IWGB exemplified workers'conditions & struggles.

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“Older women are particularly susceptible to intense & frequent heat waves” The group Senior Women for Climate Protection just won their landmark case. The court ruled that failing to meet #ClimateAction targets = a breach of human rights! Congrats KlimaSeniorinnen !💚👊

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Brand new webpage full of resources on the experiences of unpaid carers during COVID-19: 👊self-help practices 👊testimonials 👊policy work Watch the dialogue unfold in the *recorded webinars* & explore the *video library* of testimonials & film shorts grripp.net/caring-in-time…

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🇨🇱🇬🇧The @GRRIPP project may have finished but its legacy continues! Caring in times of crisis: a dialogue UK-Chile is a trans-continental network forged through the connections and knowledge exchange @GRRIPP established