EVENT: Panel Discussion at the UN Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland)

Cultures, Traditions and Violence Against Women: Human Rights Challenges

Date: Monday, March 7th 2011
Time: 1-3pm
Location: Room XXIV, Building E, Palais des Nations

 

Farida Shaheed
UN Independent Expert on Cultural Rights

• Unpacking of ‘cultures’ from the human rights perspective  (Download Paper)

Madhu Mehra
IWRAW Asia Pacific and Executive Director, Partners for Law in Development - India

• Multiple discriminations, cultures and the equality agenda

Karmen Ramirez Boscán
Leader, Epinayu clan of the Wayúu indigenours community in Colombia

• Latin America, indigenous women and cultures  (Download Presentation)
  

Fahima AbdelHafiz Hashim
Director, Salmmah Resource Center

• Cultures and violence against women: lived realities (Download Presentation)

Moderated by Lydia Alpizar, Executive Director, AWID

Attachment	Size
VNC_7 March 2011_Flyer.pdf	153.31 KB
FS_UnpackingCulturalRights_07Mar11.pdf	195.9 KB
KRB_IndigenousWomenCulture_07Mar11.pdf	1.18 MB
FH_SudanLivedRealities_07Mar11.pdf	251.91 KB