Women Confronting ISIS: Local Strategies and States’ Responsibilities
Friday, March 6, 2015 | 9:00am – 5:00pm
Dave Fields Auditorium
CUNY School of Law
2 Court Square
Long Island City, NY 11101
This Symposium offers a unique and timely opportunity to engage with locally-based Iraqi and Syrian women activists working across sectarian lines, as well as international experts to address the crisis of women’s human rights in areas controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Participants will explore the relationship between gender-based abuses under ISIS and State-sanctioned discrimination and violence against women, highlighting lessons for policymakers and women’s rights advocates in diverse contexts of political and armed conflict.
Sponsored by: The Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice, MADRE, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Nobel Women’s Initiative (NWI), the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI)
Free and open to the public, lunch provided with RSVP, CLE credits available. Speakers Include:
Yanar Mohammed, Founder and Director, Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI)
Nawal Yazeji, Syrian Women’s Peace Activist, Damascus; Member, Syrian Women’s League
Charlotte Bunch, a Board of Governor’s Distinguished Service Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies; inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
Radhika Coomaraswamy, former U.N. Under Secretary-General, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict; Visiting Professor of Law at NYU Law School (invited)
Madeleine Rees, OBE, Secretary General, WILPF
Patricia Viseur-Sellers, former Gender Legal Advisor and a Prosecutor for the ICTY & ICTR
For a full list of speakers and to register, visit: https://publicsquare.law.cuny.edu/isis