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It is with deep regret that in light of the current coronavirus pandemic, the conference has been cancelled. With such a gathering posing a serious risk of disease spreading and with many panelists having to drop out due to travel restrictions, the conference cannot go ahead.

Scholars, experts, and activists will discuss the role of gender in genocide and what it means for compliance with the Genocide Convention.

Despite a greater emphasis on sexual violence and gender-specific crimes in recent international justice efforts, genocide continues to be understood as being committed primarily through mass murder. Discussions around surfacing gender furthermore retain a limited focus on women and girls as victims of sexual violence, rather than considering the wider significance of gender to the destruction of groups.

This conference, featuring leading scholars and practitioners, draws on these recent efforts to reflect on a gendered understanding of the crime of genocide. It focuses in particular on the inextricable role that gender plays in genocide, and the relevance of this understanding in the fulfillment by States of their obligations of prevention and punishment under the Genocide Convention.

Friday, March 13

Saturday, Match 14

Organized by the Global Justice Center, the Canadian Partnership for International Justice, Girls Write the Future, the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, and the Faculty of Law of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.

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