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06.04.2022

Gender, Human Rights and National Security: Challenges in the field, from Syria to Ukraine

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Le 06 avril 2022 de 19:00 à 20:00

The Sciences Po Law School presents "Gender, Human Rights and National Security: Challenges in the field, from Syria to Ukraine".

>Siobhán Mullally, U.N. Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children; Established Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway, and currently and Visiting Professor, Sciences Po Law School.

 

Jayne Huckerby

Jayne Huckerby, Clinical Professor of law and the inaugural director of the International Human Rights Clinic, Duke University School of Law, and currently Senior Visiting Fellow, Sciences Po Law School.

 

A conversation moderated by Professors Helena Alviar García and Horatia Muir-Watt.

To date, the implications of national security policies for gender and human rights have in large part escaped full scrutiny. This is the case with official administrative and criminal measures, such as non-repatriation from NE Syria of women alleged to be linked to terrorism, sanctions regimes that target families of proscribed individuals, or counter-terrorism laws that suppress LGBTI and women’s rights defenders. And it is also true of preventive approaches that because of gender and human rights blind spots create harms either because they overlook practices (e.g., when proscribed groups traffic their own recruits, including for forced marriage or labor) or because they create additional sites (e.g., in schools or in family courts) for surveillance and other interference with minority families and communities. Sometimes too, actions taken in the name of national security create particular gendered vulnerabilities, such as mass displacement of civilian populations. Paradoxically, even those policies that have sought to explicitly connect gender and human rights to national security—such as by arguing that gender equality is itself a security tactic and a justification for militarized and other intervention—can also often backfire. Women and girls are positioned as abject victims, presumed to lack agency or power. Those who do not fit the stereotype of ‘ideal victim’ fall outside the scope of rights protections and are instead subject to punitive, disciplinary measures. Join this panel to discuss how these complex interplays unfold from domestic contexts to internationalized conflict settings and to identify the role of international human rights law in addressing these challenges.

À propos de cet événement

Le 06 avril 2022 de 19:00 à 20:00