Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Professor and Chairperson, Politics Department, has been invited to participate in a panel event at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

03/13/19

 Peyi Soyinka-Airewele, Professor and Chairperson, Politics Department, has been invited to participate in a panel event at the United Nations headquarters in New York, alongside three other Panelists: 

• Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Mohammed Ibn Chambas, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, and head of UNOWAS, and,
• Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome, Professor of Political Science and Co-Founder of Bring Back Our Girls

 The panel will focus on the international response to Boko Haram/ISWA and explore how the UN and the international community could play a more effective role in efforts against Boko Haram's mass abductions and gender-based violence. The event will be moderated by the co-founder of the "Bring Back Our Girls" movement,  Mrs. Muhammed-Oyebode, and it serves as a precursor to the annual UN Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) event series (11 - 22 March).  The panel event draws on the 2019 CSW63 themes of social protection and the empowerment of women and girls and the UN’s wider commitment to the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. 

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