Category: Events
BEARR’s 30th anniversary photography competition: the judging panel
Nadia Beard Nadia is a journalist and pianist. She is the Editor in Chief of The Calvert Journal, and previously lived and worked in Russia where she was the Moscow correspondent for The Independent. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Telegraph and Reuters among several others. Jadwiga Bronte Jadwiga is an award-winning social documentary photographer exploring relationships between human identity and politics …
BEARR Trust summer lecture 2021
“The Londongrad Laundromat and its consequences”, with journalist and ‘Moneyland’ author, Oliver Bullough We are delighted that award-winning journalist and author of Sunday Times Bestseller ‘Moneyland’, Oliver Bullough, gave this year’s Summer Lecture, “The Londongrad Laundromat and its consequences” on Wednesday 12 May via Zoom. Financial Times contributing editor John Lloyd chaired the event. It was a fascinating talk …
BEARR Trust Spring Lecture 2021
The BEARR Trust is most grateful to Nigel Gould-Davies for agreeing to give a lecture on Thursday, 18 February at 5pm UK time, on the subject of “Belarus: what happened and what next?” You can watch a full recording of the lecture on BEARR’s YouTube channel here and read the report by BEARR trustee, Ross …
Webinar: civil society and innovative practice in a time of pandemic, 19 November
Report by Megan Bick, BEARR Trustee Kristina Spirina, Winds of Changes, Odessa, Ukraine Kristina began by acknowledging the BEARR Trust as the first donor to believe in them, a women’s initiative started 2018, and to fund their first project working with Roma women and girls. Since then they have run 5 projects in 18 months with the current one finishing at the end of December 2020. We have created a map of …
Webinar: civil society support for persons with disabilities, 5 November
Report by Biljana Radonjic Ker-Lindsay, BEARR Trustee The BEARR Trust webinar on 5 November explored how service providing and advocacy disability CSOs are supporting persons with disabilities and their families in the EECCA region during the COVID-19 crisis. Particular attention was paid to their activities to address COVID-19’s impact on community inclusion and to promote equal rights …
BEARR Trust Annual Conference 2019: Violence against Women and Girls in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Report and presentations The conference on 15 November brought together over 60 representatives of civil society, academia, international organisations, lawyers, consultants and students from Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Tajikistan, Georgia, Uzbekistan and the UK. Nicola Ramsden, Chairman of The BEARR Trust, opened the conference by saying that gender-based violence (GBV) is not only an issue of …
London Conference 2019 – speaker biographies
We look forward to welcoming this excellent group of speakers to our 2019 Annual Conference: Jessica Gavron is a UK barrister and Legal Director of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre. She has extensive experience of litigating human rights abuses before the European Court of Human Rights, CEDAW and the UN Human Rights Committee against …
London Conference 2019 – programme
We are excited to present the final programme for our 2019 Annual Conference: Location: CAN Borough, 7-14 Great Dover Street, London, SE1 4YR (near Borough and London Bridge stations) 9.00 Registration and coffee 9.30 Welcome and Introduction – Nicola Ramsden, Chairman of The BEARR Trust 9.45 Domestic violence, coercion and exploitation of women and girls …
Announcing the BEARR Trust Annual Conference for 2019
We are excited to announce that our 2019 Annual Conference on the theme of Violence and Coercion against Women and Girls in Eastern Europe and Central Asia will be held on Friday 15 November at CAN- MEZZ, 7-14 Great Dover Street, London, SE1 4YR. With speakers from Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and the UK, we will …
BEARR/ULIM April 2019 Conference in Chisinau – report
The Conference “Migration and Social Changes in Eastern Europe” took place on 11-12 April 2019 at the Free International University of Moldova (ULIM) on the basis of a partnership between The BEARR Trust and ULIM. The conference involved about 100 participants, including 33 speakers and moderators. Participants came from Moldova (69) and from the UK, …
