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8 May 2017 18:00 ~ Tightening the Purse Strings: What countering terrorism financing costs gender equality and security – LSE – London

The report, Tightening the Purse Strings: What Countering Terrorism Financing Costs Gender Equality and Security, analyses how countering terrorism financing rules impact women’s rights organising, women’s rights organisations, and gender equality.

Introduced in the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, the international community brought a new focus and urgency to prioritising countering terrorism financing, including through criminalisation, sanctions and freezing of assets, and de-risking. To date, the gender and human rights implications of these countering terrorism financing policies have escaped scrutiny. Tightening the Purse Strings: What Countering Terrorism Financing Costs Gender Equality and Security represents the culmination of research, interviews, surveys, and statistical analysis carried out by the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke University School of Law and the Women Peacemakers Program in the Hague, the Netherlands, to begin to fill this gap in understanding how responses to terrorism and violent extremism may in practice squeeze women’s rights and their defenders between terror and counter-terror. As a direct and indirect result of these rules, women’s rights organisations have lost critical access to resources, as well as the ability to fully use banking facilities, all of which circumscribes how, where, and in some cases, even if, women’s rights organisations can undertake their core work on mobilising human rights, gender equality, and advancing the women, peace, and security agenda.

Speakers 

Chair:

  • Zeynep Kayais a Research Officer at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security and Research Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre.

This event is free to attend and open to all, with no ticket or pre-registration required.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/WomenPeaceSecurity/events/2017/TighteningPurseStrings.aspx

April 25, 2017

9 May 2017 18:00 ~ After Rape: Violence, Justice and Social Harmony in Uganda – Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa – London

An event hosted by the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, in partnership with the Department of International Development, the Justice and Security Research Programme, the Centre for Women, Peace and Security and the International African Institute.

This event marks the publication of Holly Porter’s new book After Rape: violence, justice and social harmony in Uganda.

Drawing upon abundant fieldwork and in-depth interviews with almost 200 women, Holly Porter examines issues surrounding wrongdoing and justice, and sexual violence and rape, among the Acholi people in northern Uganda. This intricate exploration offers evidence of a more complicated and nuanced explanation of rape and its aftermath, suggesting a re-imagining of the meanings of post-atrocity justice, whilst acknowledging the role of sex, power and politics in all sexual experiences between coercion and consent.

  • Dr Holly Porter is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, CRG, University of Gent & IOB, University of Antwerp and a Research Fellow in the Department of International Development at LSE.
  • Professor Tim Allen is Director of the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa and Head of the Department for International Development at LSE. He has long experience of research in Uganda, Kenya and Sudan.
  • Adam Branch is University Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies and Fellow of Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. He is the author of two books: Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change and Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda.

This event is free and open to all, but pre-registration required via Eventbrite(*). Contact the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at africacentre@lse.ac.uk  if you have any queries.

  • Until 20:00 @ Senior Common Room, Old Building, LSE

The Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa (@AfricaAtLSE) aims to strengthen LSE’s long-term commitment to placing Africa at the heart of understandings and debates about global issues. Through the Centre for Africa, LSE will forge new links with African scholars and institutions, and increase the visibility of Africa in the LSE’s teaching, research and policy engagement.

(*) Register online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/after-rape-violence-justice-and-social-harmony-in-uganda-tickets-33392282215

April 25, 2017

16 May 2017 18:00 ~ Butterfly Politics – Catharine A. MacKinnon – RSA – London

  • Until 19:00 @ Great Room Auditorium, RSA House

Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects.

Pioneering lawyer and activist for women’s rights Catharine A. MacKinnon argues that seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.

Catharine MacKinnon is a pioneer of legal theory and practice, a groundbreaking activist for women’s rights, and one of feminism’s most significant figures. For over forty years MacKinnon’s intellectual, legal, and political pursuits have been defined by a driving motivation: to end inequality, including abuse, in women’s lives. Many of her ideas are now staples of legal and political discourse. Others urge changes that have yet to be realized.

A powerful critic of the legal and institutional denial of reality that perpetuates practices of gender inequality, Catharine MacKinnon advances a new model of what principled, effective, socially conscious engagement with law looks like. At the RSA, she explores the actions we need to take to generate the butterfly effect that can animate political activism and further advance equality, both socially and legally.

https://www.thersa.org/events/2017/05/butterfly-politics

April 25, 2017

18 May 2017 17:00 ~ Butterfly Politics – Catharine A MacKinnon – LSE – London

The minuscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Under the right conditions, small simple actions can produce large complex effects. In this lecture to mark the launch of her new book, Catharine A MacKinnon argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.

Butterfly Politics brings this incisive understanding of social causality to a wide-ranging exploration of gender relations. The pieces collected here – many published for the first time – provide a new perspective on MacKinnon’s career as a pioneer of legal theory and practice and an activist for women’s rights. Its central concerns of gender inequality, sexual harassment, rape, pornography, and prostitution have defined MacKinnon’s intellectual, legal, and political pursuits for over forty years. Though differing in style and approach, the selections all share the same motivation: to end inequality, including abuse, in women’s lives. Several mark the first time ideas that are now staples of legal and political discourse appeared in public – for example, the analysis of substantive equality. Others urge changes that have yet to be realized.

The butterfly effect can animate political activism and advance equality socially and legally. Seemingly insignificant actions, through collective recursion, can intervene in unstable systems to produce systemic change. A powerful critique of the legal and institutional denial of reality that perpetuates practices of gender inequality, Butterfly Politics provides a model of what principled, effective, socially conscious engagement with law looks like.

Speaker

  • Catharine A MacKinnon  is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Chair:

  • Christine Chinkin(chair) is Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security and emerita Professor of International Law.

This event is free to attend and open to all, with no ticket or pre-registration required.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/WomenPeaceSecurity/events/2017/ButterflyPolitics.aspx

April 25, 2017

Female Volunteer Development Worker (WHWC)

Job title: Female Volunteer Development Worker Closing Date: 28/05/2017 Organisation: West Hampstead Women’s Centre Website:  / www.whwc.org.uk Type: 21 hours per week. One year fix term contract. Subject to DBS checks Salary: £ 24,880 pro rata (Includes LW) How to apply: For an application pack contact West Hampstead Women’s Centre by sending an email to more »

April 25, 2017