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Beyond Informality: Addressing Roma Settlements in Europe—Challenges, Solutions, and the Way Forward
Online: ZoomAcross Europe, many Roma communities live in informal housing or settlements that lack security of tenure, access to basic services, or legal recognition. These living conditions often reflect systemic exclusion, discrimination, and policy gaps. Informal settlements expose Roma families to health hazards, forced evictions, and obstacles to education and employment. Roma communities, as groups facing discrimination...
Algorithmic Bias, Gender Justice, and Descent-Based Discrimination: Ensuring AI Works for All Women and Girls
Conference Room E, UN Headquarters New YorkGender discrimination remains deeply rooted in many societies and is often experienced through intersectional forms of inequality shaped by factors such as descent, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and digital access. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded across sectors, these intersecting inequalities risk being replicated and amplified through algorithmic systems. Tools like risk prediction algorithms, forecasting-based...
Hidden and Normalized Inequality and Violence: The Realities of Women from Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent
Drew Room, UN Church CenterAcross the world, women from communities discriminated on work and descent (CDWD)—including Dalit, Quilombola, Haratine, and Roma women—continue to face extreme, multidimensional, and often invisible forms of gender-based violence. Despite decades of international commitments, the violence they face remains under-reported, under-researched, and absent from global policy dialogues. The new UN Women Policy Paper on Women...

