Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes, Int’l Courts – Washington, DC

The War Crimes Research Office and the Women and International Program of American University Washington College of Law, in collaboration with the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, present Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Before Internation/ized Criminal Courts Oct. 14, 2008.

This full-day conference will bring together experts in international criminal law and feminist jurisprudence to examine advances and missed opportunities in the prosecution of sexual and gender-based crimes before the International Criminal Court and the ad hoc and hybrid criminal tribunals. Patricia Viseur Sellers, former legal advisor for gender and trial attorney athe the International Criminal Tribunal for the Yugoslavia will give the keynote address.