<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><p style="text-align:center;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:20px"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><strong>Sama Resource Group for Women and Health &<br>
People’s Health Movement (PHM) Global </strong></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">invite you for the panel discussion titled</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%"><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:22px"><strong>NOT IN LOCKDOWN: VOICES AND STRUGGLES AGAINST GENDER, RACIAL AND SOCIAL INJUSTICES</strong></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><u><strong>Date: 25th June 2020</strong></u></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%"><span style="color:rgb(178,34,34)"><u><strong><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><a name="m_6017343132171299698__GoBack" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"></a> </span></strong></u></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,205)"><u><strong><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Timings: 5.30 PM to 7 PM IST (GMT+5:30 Hrs)</span></strong></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">With
each passing day in the unprecedented crisis situation around COVID 19
pandemic, we are being witness to pre-existing inequalities and
injustices that have been laid out around us. The resolve and strength
of people’s movements and resistance feel more pertinent today as ever
felt in the history of such struggles. </span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">COVID
19 crisis and the "lockdown" has gendered impact in terms of workload
and reduced economic opportunities, lack of access to health facilities,
nutrition and increase in incidence of gender-based violence,
communalisation and racialisation along with stigma associated with
COVID.</span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">As
committed to building people’s voices and movements on health for all,
the critical inter-linkages of gender and its intersectionality
with-social, economic and political determinants of health; identities
of race, caste, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation; varied
geographies, and contexts become an extremely important area to look
into. Realising that COVID 19 pandemic is foremost a concern of public
health crisis, its close association with human rights, social justice,
and health equity have been clearly visible across varied regions. We
feel that sharing stories and experiences of our resistance would give
us more strength and inspiration to learn from each other.</span></p>
<h3 style="display:block;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,205)"><strong><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Moderator and Speakers</span></strong></span></h3>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)"><strong>SARAH HOSSAIN (BANGLADESH)</strong></span>: <strong>Moderator and flagging key issues on the Theme</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)"><strong>LEIGH HAYNES (USA)</strong></span>: <strong>Inequities on top of inequities: racism, violence and repression in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)"><strong>SHATHA ODEH (PALESTINE & MENA)</strong></span>: <strong>Pandemic woes to conflict settings, centering gender discussions from Palestine</strong> </span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)"><strong>SAEROM KIM (SOUTH KOREA)</strong></span>: <strong>Gendered impact of the COVID crisis in South Korea</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)"><strong>SAROJINI NADIMPALLY (INDIA)</strong>:</span> <strong>The pandemic and solidarity: Why justice is important for health for marginalised, India</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(139,69,19)"><strong>PENINAH KHISA (KENYA)</strong></span>: <strong>Understanding gendered barriers in access to health and determinants, East Africa</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"> </p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">You are invited to join the webinar through Zoom meeting. </span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Please register on the link given below to receive confirmation and meeting details,</span></p>
<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://samawomenshealth.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=60888c16f3d3b0ca7c65ff612&id=0efc21f0aa&e=69bc8bcd89" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEucuugqjotG9Jdc_7qIpGGQSXzxDWd75JD</a> </span><br>
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<p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">For any clarifications please write to us at <a href="mailto:sama.womenshealth@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">sama.womenshealth@gmail.com</a> <br></span></p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p></div></div>