Event

CANCELLED - Gender, Genocide and Obligations Under International Law

Friday, March 13, 2020toSaturday, March 14, 2020
Chancellor Day Hall 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA

It is with deep regret that in light of the current coronavirus pandemic, the conference has been cancelled. With such a gathering posing a serious risk of disease spreading and with many panelists having to drop out due to travel restrictions, the conference cannot go ahead.


Scholars, experts, and activists will discuss the role of gender in genocide and what it means for compliance with the Genocide Convention.

Despite a greater emphasis on sexual violence and gender-specific crimes in recent international justice efforts, genocide continues to be understood as being committed primarily through mass murder. Discussions around surfacing gender furthermore retain a limited focus on women and girls as victims of sexual violence, rather than considering the wider significance of gender to the destruction of groups.

This conference, featuring leading scholars and practitioners, draws on these recent efforts to reflect on a gendered understanding of the crime of genocide. It focuses in particular on the inextricable role that gender plays in genocide, and the relevance of this understanding in the fulfillment by States of their obligations of prevention and punishment under the Genocide Convention.

Friday, March 13

18:00 – 19:30 Keynote: Accountability and Prevention of Genocide: From Rwanda to the Rohingya. Featuring Gen. Romeo Dallaire, Yasmin Ullah, and Denyse Umutoni.
19:30 – 20:30 Reception

Saturday, Match 14

9:00 Registration & Coffee
9:30 Welcome
9:45 – 11:15 Panel One: Gendering Genocide
11:30 – 13:00 Panel Two: The Duty to Prevent
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panel Three: The Duty to Punish
15:45 – 17:15 Panel Four: Gender & the Rohingya Genocide
17:30 – 18:00 Keynote: Senator Marilou McPhedran
18:00 – 18:15 Closing & Next Steps: co-chairs

Organized by the Global Justice Center, the Canadian Partnership for International Justice, Girls Write the Future, the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, and the Faculty of Law of McGill University.

 

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