In recognition of World Day against Trafficking in Persons on July 30, Marriott International and the University of Maryland Support, Advocacy, Freedom, and Empowerment Center for Human Trafficking Survivors (the SAFE Center) announced the nationwide expansion of Future in Training (FiT) Curriculum that seeks to equip survivors of human trafficking interested in embarking on careers in hospitality with necessary information and resources. The national rollout will span 11 metropolitan area.
Investigations Editor Brittany Wallman, Senior Editor David Schutz and reporters David Fleshler and Spencer Norris won first place in the 2023 Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards for their Innocence Sold investigative series.
By Francesca Merlo
The Forum, entitled Hopes and challenges in a post-Covid era focused on how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated and increased the challenges women face around the globe, from vulnerable refugees to working mothers.
Include women in policy making
Opening the Virtual Forum, the Vice President of Costa Rica, Epsy Campbell Barr, a trained economist, told participants that the COVID-19 pandemic has threatened to set back economic development for women for the first time in 30 years, and that it is essential to make money available to women in order for them to develop their businesses and communities amid the pandemic. She also stressed the importance of putting nature at the forefront of the development agenda. This is a time to work with women with specific policies, in all areas of social development, she said.
ABU DHABI: Costa Rican Vice President Epsy Campbell Barr said the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has threatened to set back the economic development for women.
She was one of the speakers at the inaugural Women’s Virtual Forum on Monday, which was hosted by the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity (HCHF).
“It is essential to make money available to women so they can develop their businesses and communities amid the pandemic,” said Barr, a trained economist.
The UAE’s Minister of Culture and Youth Noura Al-Kaabi, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and Irina Bokova, the former director-general of UNESCO, were among the other female leaders, experts and activists at the forum.