This Virtual Panel discussion is a side-event to the 20th Annual Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute. It is organised by the co-editors of the forthcoming book "Gender and International Criminal Law”, Indira Rosenthal, Susana SáCouto and Valerie Oosterveld and co-hosted by the International Gender Champions The Hague together with Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice and the representatives of Uruguay, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland to the Netherlands.
The event will bring together leading feminist international criminal and humanitarian law practitioners and academics to discuss misconceptions concerning gender in the prosecution of sexual violence and other gender-based crimes in international criminal law. Co-editors Indira Rosenthal, Susana SáCouto and Valerie Oosterveld will share views on the subject from their forthcoming book “Gender and International Criminal Law”.
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Agenda
14:00 – 14:05 Welcoming remarks
H.E. Laura Dupuy, Ambassador of Uruguay to the Netherlands
14:05 – 14:15 Keynote
Patricia Viseur Sellers, Special Advisor on Slavery Crimes, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC); Fellow, University of Oxford; and Practicing Professor, London School of Economics
14:15 – 15:00 Panel
Indira Rosenthal, Susana SáCouto and Valerie Oosterveld, Co-editors of the forthcoming book “Gender and International Criminal Law” (Oxford University Press)
in conversation with contributors
Rosemary Grey, Lecturer at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney; and active member of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
Melanie O'Brien, Associate Professor in International Law at the University of Western
Australia and President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
Daniela Kravetz, International criminal justice and gender expert
15:00 – 15:10 Q&A session
15:10 – 15:15 Closing remarks
H.E. Matthew Neuhaus, Ambassador of Australia to the Netherlands
Moderation by Alix Vuillemin, Advocacy Director, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice
