Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes

Conference Title: Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes before International/ized Criminal Courts

October 14,2008
American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
USA

Please join the War Crimes Research Office and the Women and International Law Program of American University Washington College of Law for a full-day conference bringing together experts in international criminal law and feminist jurisprudence to examine advances and missed opportunities in the prosecution of sexual and gender-based crimes before the International Criminal Court and the ad hoc and hybrid criminal tribunals. Patricia Viseur Sellers, former legal advisor for gender and trial attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, will give the keynote address.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Kelly Askin (Open Society Justice Initiative)
• Rhonda Copelon (International Women's Human Rights Law Clinic, City University of New York)
• Florence Darques-Lane (The International Criminal Court (ICC))
• Justice Teresa Doherty (The Special Court for Sierra Leone)
• Brigid Inder (Women's Initiative for Gender Justice)
• Maxine Marcus (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY))
• Gabriela Mischkowski (Medica Mondiale)
• Valerie Oosterveld (University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law)
• Susana SáCouto (War Crimes Research Office, (WCL))
• Beth Van Schaack (Santa Clara University School of Law)

For further information (including registration and conference schedule), please visit http://www.wcl.american.edu/gender/wlp/prosecuting_violence.cfm

Source: American University Washington College of Law