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Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Post Arab Spring: Syria’s Challenges to Protection and Accountability
| Date: |
Thursday, January 31, 2013 |
| Time: |
12:00PM - 01:30PM |
| Description: |
As part of the War
Crimes Speaker
Series, the War
Crimes Research
Office will co-host
an event titled
Sexual and
Gender-Based
Violence Post Arab
Spring: Syria’s
Challenges to
Protection and
Accountability with
the Women in
International Law
Interest Group of
the American Society
of International Law
and the American Red
Cross. The event,
examining the issue
of sexual and
gender-based
violence in the
conflict in Syria,
will be moderated by
WCRO Director Susana
SáCouto, and
panelists will
include Laila
Alodaat, Human
Rights Lawyer &
Board Member of
Syria Justice and
Accountability
Center
(participating via
skype); Tonderai
Chikuhwa, UN Office
of the Special
Representative on
Sexual Violence In
Conflict; Rafif
Jouejati, English
Spokesperson for the
Local Coordination
Committees in Syria
& Director of
FREE-Syria; and
Blake Peterson,
Special Advisor at
the US Department of
State’s Office of
Global Criminal
Justice.
It will take place
from 12:00 to 1:30
on Thursday, January
31 in room 402 of
the Washington
College of Law. A
light lunch will be
served. Please RSVP
to
warcrimes@wcl.american.edu. |
| Sponsor: |
War Crimes Research Office |
| URL: |
http://www.wcl.american.edu/warcrimes/ |
| Location: |
402
|
| Contact Name: |
Brady Williamson |
| Contact Phone: |
274-4067 |
| Contact Email: |
warcrimes@wcl.american.edu |
| Posted On: |
12/18/12 |
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