(POSTPONED) Safeguarding the Future: UN Challenges, Multilateral Action and Child Protection
22 January 2026. From 18:30 | Conference | English | IEMed
THIS CONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL A NEW DATE TO BE DETERMINED
At a time when the established multilateral system faces acute challenges, global cooperation is under unprecedented strain. How can the United Nations remain relevant and effective? How can the existing humanitarian system evolve to meet the expectations of a new global era? In this context, both the UN80 and the Humanitarian Reset aim to increase efficiency and effectiveness amid an unprecedented funding crisis, while continuing to respond to the critical humanitarian needs in large scale conflicts and protracted crisis globally. As in all crossroads, challenges exist but opportunities also arise, particularly for long overdue reforms, reviewing UN mandates and program realignment, ensuring protection at its center with the aim to create an effective humanitarian system capable of meeting the challenges of the future in a new global order.
A lecture by Carmen Monclús i Gironès, an international senior humanitarian and development officer with more than twenty years of experience with Governments and the United Nations, serving in complex operations across continents.
Monclús holds an MPhil from Trinity College Dublin, specializing in Human Rights and International Criminal Justice. In her Syria based role, she led the UNICEF child protection response across the border from Türkiye in non Government controlled areas during critical years, as well as more recently within Syria. Before joining UNICEF, Carmen had worked for Government institutions and for UNOPS, IOM and UNHCR in the areas of governance, migration, refugee protection, gender and child protection, extending from cluster coordination, technical support and high level policy advocacy. Carmen brings extensive experience with the United Nations in both development and emergency, humanitarian contexts. She has worked at UN Headquarters and in multiple country operations, including Afghanistan, Uganda, Bolivia, Sudan, Pacific Island Countries, Angola and Syria.
Session of the conference series of the interuniversity programme Aula Mediterrània 2023-24 moderated by Lurdes Vidal, professor of the master’s degree, FCRI Blanquerna – URL. The conference is coorganized with the Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in International Affairs, FCRI Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull.
It takes place at the IEMed conference room (Girona, 20 · Barcelona)
Speakers
Carmen Monclús
Protection Manager Unicef Syria
Lurdes Vidal
professor of the master’s degree FCRI Blanquerna – URLOrganised by
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