Working the System: Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at the United Nations
Description:
A discussion with Cynthia Rothschild, an independent consultant in areas related to the United Nations, gender, sexual rights, HIV & AIDS and women’s human rights. In recent months, she has worked with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on its first-ever report related to sexual orientation and gender identity and with various NGOs on international advocacy. From 2005 – 2009, she was the Senior Policy Advisor at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, a women’s human rights NGO based in the US. A trainer and sexual rights activist for over 20 years, she is the author of Written Out: How Sexuality is Used to Attack Women's Organizing; and the co-author of Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS. Her recent efforts include a focus on reform of the UN and the creation of UN Women (the new UN women’s agency), and engagement at the UN Human Rights Council, the Commission on the Status of Women and various global meetings on HIV&AIDS. Sponsored by the Program on Global Health and Human Rights (GHHR) in collaboration with the Health Law and Bioethics Society and OUTLaw. Lunch provided.
Event Date: Feb. 13, 2012 - 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Location: Musick Law Building Room 103