Gender in Investigating and Documenting International Crimes

ATLAS

This event, co-organized with ATLAS Women, seeks to critically examine how international crimes are investigated, documented, and prosecuted through a gender-competent lens. By reflecting on past failures and emerging approaches, it will provide a platform for scholars, practitioners, students and advocates to assess the state of gender justice within international accountability mechanisms.

Held in commemoration of International Women’s Day, this panel will explore both progress made and challenges that persist in ensuring that international criminal law adequately addresses gender-based crimes. It will:

• Discuss their insights on the historical limitations of gender-blind investigative approaches and their consequences
• Provide insights on the recent progress in integrating gender-competent and intersectional methodologies into investigations, with a focus on the broader spectrum of crimes against women and girls, as well as crimes against men, boys, and non-binary individuals.
• Discuss more gender-competent approaches to key international crimes that they are examining in their work (including, for example, genocide, gender persecution, forced marriage, sexual slavery and acts of reproductive violence)

Additionally, panelists will discuss their experiences as women working on the investigation and documentation of international crimes and share their advice and insights with the audience.

Panelists:

• Mona Rishmawi, Member, Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Sudan
• Rosalind Sipos, Legal Officer, International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria (IIIM)
• Erin Gallagher, Investigation Team Leader, International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria (IIIM)

Moderator (TBC):

• Shima Esmailian, Teaching Assistant, Geneva Academy, International Law and Gender Specialist

Registration

Register here to attend in person at Uni Dufour, room U300.

Register here to attend online.

 

Disclaimer

This event may be filmed, recorded and/or photographed on behalf of the Geneva Academy. The Geneva Academy may use these recordings and photographs for internal and external communications for information, teaching and research purposes, and/or promotion and illustration through its various media channels (website, social media, newsletters, annual report, etc.).

By participating in this event, you are agreeing to the possibility of appearing in the aforementioned films, recordings and photographs, and their subsequent use by the Geneva Academy.