The Graduate School of Social Service’s Institute for Women and Girls held a conference on March 19 focused on raising awareness of and finding solutions for problems that plague refugee women, such as violence and trafficking. The conference was set up as a parallel event for the 60th session of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women, which looks to fight for women’s rights. Adriana Sandu, a volunteer at the Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign (CRRC) in Europe, brought up the fact that the refugee population coming to Europe this year is almost 60 percent women and children. Sandu works at Anglia Ruskin University and has helped women and children looking to flee conflict zones in Iraq and Syria. The conference also included a keynote address from Kathryn Hodges, head of the Department of Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University. Ruskin discussed that the world needs to become more aware of the crisis of human trafficking.