From the UN Security Council to Charlize Theron: “Getting Cross” about Sexual Violence in War

Thu 19/04/2012

Time: 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM

Speaker:

Professor Karen Engle

Description:

Since 1999, the UN Security Council has passed at least seventeen resolutions regarding the protection in war of civilians, children and women.

This lecture will consider the role that the international women’s rights movement has played in the campaign for some of these resolutions, demonstrating how what began with feminist calls for an analysis of the gendered production of war (and peace) has morphed, through humanitarian logic, into a nearly exclusive focus on the harm of rape and sexual violence. Both continue to be presented as fates worse than death.  It will also consider the UN’s use of celebrity diplomacy in its efforts to make intelligible the harm of rape during armed conflict.

Professor Karen Engle is the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law,Co-Director Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law.

 

Registrations for the lecture have now closed. If you wish to be placed on the waiting list, please email c.hutton@unimelb.edu.au.

 

 Flyer

Venue:

G08

Address:

Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham Street Carlton, VIC

Contact Person:

Cathy Hutton

Contact Details:

c.hutton@unimelb.edu.au

RSVP:

Monday 16 April 2012



     

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