Webinar recordings
Previous webinars will be uploaded here. Please go to our events page for upcoming webinars.
Previous webinars will be uploaded here. Please go to our events page for upcoming webinars.
When States delegate legal authority to traditional, customary or religious systems they bestow on them a range of powers which are not always subject to rights standards and norms nor to state oversight.
It has taken very many years to include women’s experiences of violence in work against torture and to think of torture as an appropriate term for women’s experiences of violence.
Session slides - TFGBV.pptx
There is growing global recognition of abuse in cyber space and the many harms it brings women and girls. The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in March 2023 took as its theme the subject of technology and women.
There are efforts in some jurisdictions to introduce legislative measures. But what would a good law look like? To what extent can we consider common approaches?
This discussion was led by Nighat Dad, a practicing lawyer based in Pakistan who participated in CSW. Nighat was joined by Tsitsi Matekaire ( Global Lead, End Sexual Exploitation at Equality Now).
In all jurisdictions the police are expected to play a key frontline role in protecting women from male violence and investigating crimes with a view to prosecuting perpetrators of violence against women. Yet there is growing evidence that significant numbers of police officers are abusers themselves - both in their offical roles and in their off-duty lives.
Despite international rights provisions, psychological violence currently has a limited profile in legal discourse, both conceptually and in practice. What do we mean by the term? How does it help towards ending violence against women? How has it been litigated and what challenges / success have come from this work?