Giji GYA
Ms Gya has worked on human security, rights, sustainability & non-exploitation for 24 years, including in the security, SSR, policy, information, fashion (Fairwear) and textiles industries. She has always done from a CSR / ESG (environment, social & governance) perspective.
A real sustainable circularity is about integrated approaches to business & human security. Human security is about dignity and centring what we do, what we consume and how we do business, with the fundamentals of our collective and individual happiness, human rights, well-being and the stability of the planet. We need to make more effort to view for the long-term and apply the principle of doing no harm first. Additionally, in the 21st century, addressing what and how we consume is becoming paramount to our future and the true essence of being "sustainable".
She is also CEO & Co-Founder of the luxury up-cycled & ethical style boutique DOWNTOWN UPTOWN in Geneva, Switzerland.
International expertise on: human rights, security sector transformation; gender in security; migration; counter-trafficking in human beings; business; corporate social responsibility (ESG) and global sustainability.
She has researched & consulted for the UN, NATO, the EU, European Parliament, OSCE, NGOs, business and several governments. She has worked in Melbourne, New York, Brussels and Geneva and done short field work in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Tajikistan, Liberia, DRC, Uganda, Australia and Tonga.
Ms Gya currently combines consulting work on human security and slow fashion with directing her sustainable upcycled fashion business.
Address: www.sapereaudeassociates.com
A real sustainable circularity is about integrated approaches to business & human security. Human security is about dignity and centring what we do, what we consume and how we do business, with the fundamentals of our collective and individual happiness, human rights, well-being and the stability of the planet. We need to make more effort to view for the long-term and apply the principle of doing no harm first. Additionally, in the 21st century, addressing what and how we consume is becoming paramount to our future and the true essence of being "sustainable".
She is also CEO & Co-Founder of the luxury up-cycled & ethical style boutique DOWNTOWN UPTOWN in Geneva, Switzerland.
International expertise on: human rights, security sector transformation; gender in security; migration; counter-trafficking in human beings; business; corporate social responsibility (ESG) and global sustainability.
She has researched & consulted for the UN, NATO, the EU, European Parliament, OSCE, NGOs, business and several governments. She has worked in Melbourne, New York, Brussels and Geneva and done short field work in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Tajikistan, Liberia, DRC, Uganda, Australia and Tonga.
Ms Gya currently combines consulting work on human security and slow fashion with directing her sustainable upcycled fashion business.
Address: www.sapereaudeassociates.com
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Internal security in Europe has long considered migration dynamics. According to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), migration is part of its comprehensive security approach, as was recognized in the Helsinki Final Act (1975).
In the EU, the 1985 Schengen agreement, created a need for cooperation on policing of migration and the commencement of databases on migrants. The 2003 EU Dublin Regulation on asylum seekers established a Europe-wide fingerprinting database for unauthorised entrants to the EU.
Tying internal security to migration, the EU only really considered an internal security framework with the adoption of the Internal Security Strategy (ISS) by the Council of the EU in 2010 after the Lisbon Treaty.
Despite commitments and frameworks of the OSCE and EU, there are still both negative and positive aspects of progress in addressing the region’s migration, security and stability.
What is now required, is an ongoing strengthening of governance structures and cooperation mechanisms - always from a human rights and human security basis to protect victims and vulnerable people – and to ensure all key stakeholders are involved in the dialogue to assure that we include new migration trends and dynamics.
Internal security in Europe has long considered migration dynamics. According to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), migration is part of its comprehensive security approach, as was recognized in the Helsinki Final Act (1975).
In the EU, the 1985 Schengen agreement, created a need for cooperation on policing of migration and the commencement of databases on migrants. The 2003 EU Dublin Regulation on asylum seekers established a Europe-wide fingerprinting database for unauthorised entrants to the EU.
Tying internal security to migration, the EU only really considered an internal security framework with the adoption of the Internal Security Strategy (ISS) by the Council of the EU in 2010 after the Lisbon Treaty.
Despite commitments and frameworks of the OSCE and EU, there are still both negative and positive aspects of progress in addressing the region’s migration, security and stability.
What is now required, is an ongoing strengthening of governance structures and cooperation mechanisms - always from a human rights and human security basis to protect victims and vulnerable people – and to ensure all key stakeholders are involved in the dialogue to assure that we include new migration trends and dynamics.