Brazil: Women and girls

Type:: Meeting or Conference
Organizer:: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Grupo de riscos ambientais e urbano (GRAU))
Date:: 10 Oct 2012
Location:: Brazil (Salvador/Bahia)
Venue:: Rua Bairro da Federação

Roundtable with women

This free event will take place on October 10 commemorating the international day for disaster reduction and is open to the general public. The event aims to bring together professionals and students from diverse areas of expertise in the auditorium of the Faculty of Architecture at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador / Bahia / Brazil, with maximum capacity of 300 seats for the audience. The event is composed of a round table with 6 speakers and experts in disaster psychology of emergencies. The topics to be addressed will be in the special theme of empowerment of women and girls as a force (in)visible in cases of disaster resilience.

The event is organized by the Group of Environmental and Urban Riks in conjunction with the regional council of psychology of Bahia (crp03).