'Feminist Truth Recovery' Seminar in Dublin

11 February 2010, 9:30 AM

Hanna's House are hosting a seminar on Thursday, 11 February in Dublin on 'Feminist Truth Recovery'. The seminar will explore gendered experiences of war and abuse and examine the significance or limitations of truth recovery processes for enabling the acknowledgment of women's experiences of war and violence; bringing justice for violations; and the potential for transformation.

The keynote speaker is Professor Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin who is concurrently the Dorsey & Whitney Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Professor of Law at the University of Ulster's Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast. Fionnuala was a representative of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at domestic war crimes trials in Bosnia (1996-97) and in 2003, she was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as Special Expert on promoting gender equality in times of conflict and peace-making. She has been nominated twice by the Irish government to the European Court of Human Rights, in 2004 and 2007, the first woman and the first academic lawyer to be thus nominated. She was appointed by the Irish Minister of Justice to the Irish Human Rights Commission in 2000 and served until 2005. She remains an elected member of the Executive Committee for the Belfast-based Committee on the Administration of Justice, and is also a member of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.

Fionnuala will be joined by a panel of speakers from civil society, government, academia and the media. The seminar is scheduled to take place from 10.30 to 3.30pm, with registration from 9.30, in a Dublin venue (to be confirmed in the new year). For more information about Hanna's House please refer to www.hannashouse.net. If you are interested in attending this event please email hannashouse@nwci.ie to add your name to the delegate list.

The seminar is free and numbers are limited so do please register as early as possible.

Venue

TBC