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Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War: A Panel Discussion


Date & time
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Cost

This event is free

Organization

School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University

Where

Henry F. Hall Building
1455 De Maisonneuve W.
Room H-767

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

The School of Community and Public Affairs and the Political Science Student Association invites you to a public exchange in company of Dr. Kirsten Johnson, CEO of Humanitarian U and an Emergency Medicine Physician at McGill University Health Centre; Allison Turner, currently of counsel at GWBR, who has represented individuals criminally charged before the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) since 2005; Diana Sarosi, policy and advocacy manager of the Nobel Women’s Initiative; and Pascal Paradis, director of Lawyers Without Borders Canada.

The panellists will debate the challenges linked to the sexual violence faced by women in conflict zones. The moderator will be Kyle Matthews, the Senior Deputy Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University.

More precisely, they will be asked to discuss how sexual violence erodes the social fabric of a community, and how this problem could be tackled at the national and international level through legal reform, humanitarian protection and support for survivors, as well as the cross-sectional training of the medical, judicial, legal and law enforcement sectors.


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