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Events

International Law Weekend 2023: Crimes Against Humanity, New Offenses, New Frontiers?
This panel will explore recent developments in justice and accountability for crimes against humanity as well as the ongoing efforts to establish a new treaty on crimes against humanity. Recent demands from civil society seek interpretation and possibly amendment of the Rome Statute and other international criminal law texts to fully encompass crimes involving sexual, gender-based, and reproductive violence, the crime of slavery and the slave trade, and crimes against the environment. This suggests that the legal codification of crimes against humanity in the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court may not yet cover the full range of atrocities and victimization experienced by civilian populations in today’s world. Bringing together civil society as well as those engaged in legal codification efforts is critical to address gaps in justice, peace, and equality. The panel will be conducted in an interactive roundtable format.
Moderator:
Leila Nadya Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University School of Law; Director, Crimes Against Humanity Initiative; Chair, ABILA Board of Directors
Panelists:
Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga, Legal and Sanctions Coordinator, Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations Matthew Gillett, Associate Professor, University of Essex; Vice-Chair, United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Akila Radhakrishnan, President, Global Justice Center Hugo Relva, Legal Adviser, Amnesty International Patricia Viseur Sellers, Special Advisor for Slavery Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court; Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford Anna Pála Sverrisdottir, Legal Adviser of Iceland to the United Nations
2023 Women’s Media Awards
The 2023 Women’s Media Award Honorees are:
Mariska Hargitay, Emmy-winning actor, director, producer, activist, Founder & President of the Joyful Heart Foundation, will be honored with the WMC Sisterhood is Powerful Award. Fredricka Whitfield, CNN News anchor, will be honored with the WMC Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award. Karen Lincoln Michel, President of ICT, formerly Indian Country Today, and President and CEO of IndiJ Public Media, will be honored with the WMC Carol Jenkins Award. Emily Ladau, Disability Rights Activist, author of Demystifying Disability, will be honored with the WMC Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT Award. Koritha Mitchell, award-winning author, cultural critic, literary historian, professor of English, will be honored with the WMC Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT Award. Akila Radhakrishnan, President of the Global Justice Center, will be honored with the Progressive Women’s Voices IMPACT Award.
Centering Threats Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Mass Atrocity Prevention
This event, held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Week, provides an opportunity to discuss the imperative to integrate sexual orientation & gender identity (SOGI) perspectives through a fully gendered approach into mass atrocity prevention, and consider the challenges and opportunities to doing so. The panel will build on the Security Council’s Arria formula meeting in March 2023 which focused on the Security Council’s role in integrating LGBTQI+ rights and perspectives into their efforts in maintaining international peace and security, by exploring the role of the full UN system in SOGI-inclusive atrocity prevention. The event will also be informed by the Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity’s report on LGBTQI+ rights in the context of conflict, post-conflict, and peacebuilding.
Speakers The Rt. Hon. Lord Herbert of South Downs, Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on LGBT+ Rights, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Victor Madrigal-Borloz, UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Zohra Mousavi, Special Project Coordinator (Afghanistan Program), ILGA-Asia Kate Ferguson, Co-Executive Director, Protection Approaches Neela Ghoshal Senior Director of Law, Policy, & Research, Outright International Elizabeth Taylor Jay, Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs, Colombia Jessica Stern, United States Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons Akila Radhakrishnan (moderator), Global Justice Center
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