Conferences and Events
Women & Justice Conferences
- Conference: Sexual Violence Against Girls in Southern Africa. On October 18-19, 2012, the Avon Global Center will host a conference featuring several public events and a judicial colloquium on the problem of violence against girls in southern Africa.
- Conference: Gender-Based Violence and Justice in South Asia. On October 22-23, 2011, the Avon Global Center, in cooperation with Jindal Global Law School, hosted a conference bringing together judges, practitioners and scholars to discuss issues in gender justice in South Asia.
- Conference: Gender-Based Violence and Access to Justice in Conflict and Post-Conflict Areas. On March 12, 2010, the Avon Global Center hosted a conference bringing together judges, practitioners and scholars to discuss emerging issues in gender justice and the prosecution of gender-based violence crimes. Audio and Video recordings available.
EVENTS
- Panel Event: Custodial Violence Against Women. On March 13, 2013, Avon Global Center Executive Director, Elizabeth Brundige, participated in a panel convened by Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, during the 57th Annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
- Panel Event: Sexual Violence Against Girls in Southern Africa. On March 4, 2013, the Avon Global Center hosted an NGO parallel event to the 57th Annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
- Film Screening: The Lightening Testimonies. On April 2, 2012, The Avon Global Center, Kriti Film Club, and Cornell Advocates for Human Rights presented a film
that reflects upon a history of conflict in the Indian subcontinent through
experiences of sexual violence.
- Virtue Foundation 2012 Senior Roundtable on Women in the Judiciary. On March 7-8, 2012, the Avon Global Center co-hosted a roundtable event, which convened over 30 distinguished judges from all regions of the world to discuss the role of national constitutions and the judges who apply them in advancing gender equality.
- National Association of Women Judges 2011 Annual Conference. The Avon Global Center was a supporting organization of the NAWJ 2011 Annual Conference and participated in its Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Symposium on International Women's Rights on October 14, 2011.
- Film Screening: Crime After Crime. On July 7, 2011, the Avon Global Center, STEPS to End Family Violence and the Women in Prison Project of the Correctional Association of NY hosted in New York City a special screening of an award-winning documentary that chronicles the experiences of a domestic violence survivor-defendant navigating the criminal justice system.
- Roundtable Discussion on Domestic Violence and Women's Incarceration for Virtue Foundation Ghana Jurists in Residence. On April 25, 2011, the Avon Global Center organized a discussion in New York City for five Ghanaian Women judges, centered on the intersection of domestic violence and women's incarceration.
- Virtue Foundation 2011 Senior Roundtable on Women and the Judiciary. From March 31 to April 1, 2011, the Center collaborated with the Virtue Foundation and others partners in bringing together senior women judges from 20 countries to discuss strategies for increasing the participation of women in the judiciary, in order to improve access to justice, especially for women and girls.
- Panel Discussion: "From Protection to Punishment: Barriers to Justice for Domestic Violence Survivor-Defendants in New York State." On March 14, 2011, the Avon Global Center hosted a panel discussion and reception co-sponsored with the Women in Prison Project of the Correctional Association of New York and the National Association of Women Judges, New York Chapter, Women in Prison Committee. Audio recordings available.
- Avon Global Center hosts third U.S. Department of State International Visitors Group on Women and Justice. On March 8, 2011, the Avon Global Center hosted an international delegation of prominent women legal professionals through the U.S. Department of State International Visitors Program on Women and Justice.
- On January 27, 2011, the Avon Global Center hosted a panel discussion and reception to mark the launch of a new report examining acid attacks in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India. Read our report, "Combating Acid Violence in Bangladesh, India, and Cambodia."
- Avon Global Center hosts U.S. Department of State International Visitors Program. On March 15, 2010 and June 21, 2010, the Avon Global Center hosted an international delegation of prominent women leaders through the U.S. Department of State International Visitors Program on Women and Justice.
- Women & Global Justice Speaker Series. In coordination with the Dorothea S. Clarke Program in Feminist Jurisprudence, the Avon Global Center organized a series of presentations on emerging issues in the field of gender-based violence. Audio and Video recordings available.