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Event

Launch of Women's Charters & Declarations

Monday, March 14, 2016 12:30to14:30
Chancellor Day Hall NCDH 312, 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA

Join the Women of Colour student Collective and : The ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Journal of International Law & Legal Pluralism for the launch of , an online database of women's legal and political advocacy tools used to advance equal rights and women's political participation. These charters are from around the world and deal with a variety of issues, from political participation to social issues to sports. The six members on the advisory board of this project include ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Law’s Professor Vrinda Narain, as well as two UN Special Rapporteurs, anthropology professors, and activists.

We will be holding a roundtable discussion, open to the public, with feminist scholars, activists, and students, on the importance of a material archive of women's advocacy tools and how these documents can be used to mobilise new ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ of feminists to learn and adapt these tools to their local contexts.Ìý

Key guests

Ariane Brunet, Co-Founder of Women’s Urgent Action Fund

Amanda Ghahremani, BCL/LLB'15, Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Charters & Declarations

Event is free and open to the public, and a light lunch will be served, so kindly RSVP to intergentes [at] mcgill.ca.

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