A Gender rights Advocate, Writer and Consultant.
Conference Participations, Interviews & Podcasts
Reaching my audience and building my network through a variety of platforms.
Speaker | The Condition of Women in Afghanistan under the current Taliban rule
The Interface society of Lady Shri Ram College for Women, invited Akanksha Khullar to provide an overview of women's situation in Afghanistan under the new Taliban rule.
Podcast | The Tragedy of Afghanistan: Unveiling Taliban’s Six Months in Power & the Situation of Women
As we have seen that after seizing power in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, Taliban leaders made statements in which they claimed that their new regime would protect women's rights in the country. However, given the extensive history of the group’s discriminatory outlook towards women combined with the group’s newly imposed diktat and actions, it has become evident that Islamist Fundamentalists are set to implement massive rollback of women’s rights and equality. Against this backdrop, this podcast is an attempt to contribute a perspective on the condition of Afghan women in the past six months of the Taliban’s rule and the big picture considerations that come with it.
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Speaker | A Gender Sensitive Indian Foreign Policy — Why and How?
Akanksha Khullar was invited to speak on A Gender Sensitive Indian Foreign Policy - Why? and How? by ICWA on 11 March. The panel featured Ambassador (Retd) Nirupama Menon Rao (former Foreign Secretary of India), Dr Swarna Rajagopalan (founder and Managing Director, The Prajanya Trust), Dr Swati Parashar (Director, Gothenburg Centre for Globalisation and Development, University of Gothenburg), Dr Soumita Basu (Associate Professor, Department of IR, South Asian University), and Dr Bindulakshami Pattadath (Associate Professor, Advanced Centre for Women's Studies in the School of Development Studies, TISS).
Podcast | Gender Mainstreaming in India's Foreign Policy
In this interview, Akanksha Khullar, Country Coordinator for Women’s Regional Network, India talks to Meghna Singh about Gender Mainstreaming in Foreign Policy of India.
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Podcast | The COVID-19 Pandemic's Gendered Impact
In this episode, Dr. Meltem Ä°nce Yenilmez, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, YaÅŸar University, Turkey, speaks with Akanksha Khullar about the COVID-19 pandemic's cross-cutting impacts. The conversation looks at the importance of data disaggregated at minimum by sex and age—if not by other classifications at this stage such as socioeconomic status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, refugee status, etc.—in identifying and addressing inequities created and/or further stressed by COVID-19.
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Conference Participation | Asia Pacific Week 2019
Akanksha Khullar participated in the Asia Pacific Week 2019, organised annually by the Australian National University. This year's iteration, held from 30 June-5 July, was titled ‘New Horizons: Identities, Challenges and Opportunities'. The interdisciplinary conference aims at bringing together students, young professionals, policymakers and senior officials to debate and discuss issues, challenges and opportunities in the Asia Pacific region.
