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Chair: Professor Nata Duvvury, Centre for Global Women's Studies, University of Galway

Panel speakers:

• Elizabeth Hitchen - Demolitions and Forced Displacement in occupied Palestine: West Bank & East Jerusalem
• Prarthna Goel - Does Natural Disasters Induced Male Unemployment Increase Violence Against Women? Empirical Evidence from India

Lisa Hitchen: I have been a human rights monitor in occupied Palestine 2018, 2019 and 2024. I am a former MA Gender, Globalization and Rights student at the Centre for Global Women's Studies, University of Galway.  I also successfully completed a BA in Arts with Human Rights at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway.  I currently work full time in social housing.

Prarthna Goel: I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India. I am an economist with areas of interest and specialization in the field of applied economics, development economics and gender studies. Some of my ongoing research includes work on economics of gender, environment economics, economics of crime and marriage market outcomes. I have completed PhD and M.Phil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. I have done Master's in Economics from Delhi School of Economics (DSE) and Bachelor's in Economics from Delhi University.

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