Women’s Human Rights Training: Videos and Summary Report Now Available

In follow-up to the International Justice Resource Center’s most recent training, Protecting Women’s Rights: International Law & Advocacy, we are pleased to announce that the video recordings and summary report are now available online.

The six sessions addressed:

• women’s human rights under international law;

• the United Nations human rights mechanisms – including the treaty bodies, special procedures, Universal Periodic Review, Human Rights Council, and Commission on the Status of Women – and the opportunities for advocacy around women’s rights, such as in the case of domestic workers in the United States;

• the Inter-American System for the protection of human rights and the evolution of its doctrine on women’s rights;

• discrimination against women as a human rights violation;

• violence against women, with a special focus on the Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) case); and

• advocacy on sexual and reproductive rights, with a special focus on the Center for Reproductive Rights’ “Nuestro Texas” campaign and the Karen Atala Riffo case.

Each of the videos can be viewed below, or watched or downloaded on IJRC’s Vimeo page.

IJRC has also published a summary report of the training, which synthesizes the information and insights provided by each speaker. This report, as well as the background materials, agenda, speaker bios, and other information, are available in a public Dropbox folder, which is accessible at the following shortened link: www.bit.ly/womensrights2014. Shortly after the training, IJRC published a recap on six takeaways shared by the speakers, which can be read in the IJRC News Room.