Dear all,

Please find below details of an upcoming event at QMUL on Women, Peace and Transnational Activism which may be of interest.

BW, M&F

From: Catherine Miller [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 03 March 2015 14:23
To: Kenny, Meryl S. (Dr.)
Subject: Mile End Institute Event 31st March : Are Women's Rights Human Rights?

Dear Meryl,

On 31 March the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University is hosting an event in partnership with History & Policy which I thought might be of interest to your members and I wondered if you might circulate it to them?

Attached are a PDF for the evening event (detailed below) as well as a related afternoon event which is more historically focused.

Best wishes

Catherine

Catherine Miller

Executive Manager

Mile End Institute

Queen Mary University of London

mei.qmul.ac.uk

+44 7799 627 602

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@MileEndInst

Women, Peace and Transnational Activism: A Century On

31 March 2015

6.30pm – 8pm

Mile End Institute Queen Mary University Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

The centenary of the Women’s Peace Congress, which took place at The Hague in April 1915, offers a unique opportunity to reflect on the past, present and future of women’s transnational organising and to ask how far feminist perspectives have been mainstreamed into international debates about security, development and human rights over the past century.

The women from belligerent countries who gathered at The Hague whilst war waged across Europe developed a vision of gender-based solidarities which transcended national borders and in which peace and women’s rights were intimately intertwined.

This roundtable - a joint initiative between QMUL’s Mile End Institute and History & Policy - will ask three leading voices in contemporary global gender politics to reflect on how far women’s rights have become fully recognised as

human rights, and what role women’s organising, including feminist action, have played in achieving this change.

Anita Anand, BBC journalist and host of Any Answers (chair)

Dame Barbara Stocking, Principal of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge and former head of Oxfam

Frances Guy, Christian Aid, former UN Women Representative for Iraq and former British Ambassador to Yemen

Baroness Berridge, Chair of All-Party Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief

All attendees are invited to join the speakers for a reception after the event.

To register for this free event please go to www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-peace-and-transnational-activism-a-century-on-tickets-15649250329

For further information please contact Catherine Miller [log in to unmask] @MileEndInst