22 OCT | Join online seminar on advancing women’s rights to land and property!
This Thursday 22 October, GI-ESCR, the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies of Indiana University and the Kenya Land Alliance are hosting an online seminar on women’s rights to land and property, tailored for CSOs and grassroots movements working on these topics. Bringing together academics and practitioners, the seminar will present and discuss how to advance women's rights to land and property using Concluding Observations from treaty bodies such as the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
WHEN?
Thursday 22 October 2020 | 08:30 - 10:00 EDT — 15:30 - 17:00 EAT
Note that the seminar will be held in English.
How?
This online seminar will be held by Zoom. Click here below to register :
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FOR WHOM?
This online seminar aims at helping anyone involved in women’s rights work, and particularly civil society organisations and grassroots movements working on women’s rights to land and property.
Why?
GI-ESCR and the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington recently published a key report entitled How to use Treaty Bodies' Concluding Observations to advance Women’s Land and Property Rights - Kenya case study.
Our online seminar taking place on 22 October aims to present this report and help further practitioners as well as academics in their work on women's rights to land and property, with contributions from the authors of the report and an interactive space for questions from the participants.
With whom?
Moderator: Faith Alubbe, CEO, Kenya Land Alliance.
Introduction
Lucy McKernan, Geneva Representative, GI-ESCR.
Prof. Shruti Rana, Assistant Dean Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies of Indiana University.
Students from Hamilton Lugar School on their research contribution to the report and on the international mechanisms linked with local struggles.
Panelists
Echoeing the Kenya case study included in the report, panelists will explain how they have utilised treaty bodies, including CEDAW, and how the concluding observations have helped to advance women’s rights to land and property.
Jessica Oluoch, Senior Programme Officer, Women’s Land and Property Rights, KELIN.
Rachel Dinda, Youth, Gender and Disability Mainstreaming Officer, Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, Kenya.
An interactive ‘Questions and Answers’ session will then take place with participants.