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Gender Based Violence: Our Duty to Protect and HealSaturday, September 12, 2009 from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM (PT)San Francisco, CA |
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RESOURCES on Gender Asylum
ABOUT our Gender Asylum and Recovery Project
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Jorge Bustamante, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Migrants
Presentations and Panelists, including:
- Prof. Karen Musalo, Director, UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS)
- Dr. Uwe Jacobs, Clinical Director, Survivors International (SI)
- Jayne Fleming, Esq. - ProBono Counsel, ReedSmith; Board of Directors (SI & CGRS)
- Rita Maran, Ph. D - International Human Rights Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley
- Muadi Mukenge - Director, SubSaharan Africa, Global Fund for Women
- Chris Nugent, Esq. - Senior Counsel, Holland & Knight
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Nilofar Aslami, MD - Forensic Physician & Gynecologist; Afghanistan Organization for the Development of Human Rights: The Forensic Medicine of Gender Based Violence
- Firoza Chic Dabby - Director, Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
Dance, Music and Poetry:
- Anne Bluethenthal, Director and Choreographer, ABD Productions
- Melanie DeMore, Musician
- MamaCoatl, Poet
Since 2004, Survivors International's Gender Asylum and Recovery Project serving immigrant, asylee and refugee survivors of gender-based violence, with the same set of services we have provided for survivors of political torture for the last twenty years. As research has demonstrated that the effects of gender-based violence are as grave as those of political torture, Survivors International has deepened and renewed its commitment to provide the coordinated medical, psychological, legal and social support that these individuals and families need to begin the healing process here in the United States.
Survivors International recognizes that the shifts in the torture rehabilitation movement mirror the shifts in the world - and focusing only on political torture meant missing a much larger narrative. Our conversation is no longer just about torture. Now is the time to bring together the strongest advocates and experts from across disciplines to begin building towards a more integrated understanding of gender based violence, US immigration policies and Gender Asylum Law, and the development of international standards for the documentation and investigation of gender based violence.
This program is hosted by Survivors International, with the generous support of the California Endowment, Firedoll Foundation, the Horizons Foundation, the Isabel Allende Foundation, Langeloth Foundation, Potrero Nuevo Fund, San Francisco Foundation, van Loben Sels /RembeRock Foundation, Y&H Soda Foundation, Zellerbach Family Foundation,and the UC Hastings School of Law's Center for Gender and Refugee Studies.
Our sincere thanks also to our community of co-sponsors:
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley, Asian Americans for Community Involvement, Bay Area Friends of the US National Committee for UNIFEM, Amnesty International USA, Center for Justice and Accountability and The United Nations Association of the USA (East Bay Chapter).
When & Where
UC Hastings School of Law
200 McAllister Street
Alumni Reception Hall
San Francisco,
CA 94102
Saturday, September 12, 2009 from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM (PT)
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Survivors International
Survivors International is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing essential psychological and medical services to survivors of torture who have fled from around the world to the San Francisco Bay Area. SI aims to help survivors put the pieces back together by providing the support they need to re-establish healthy and productive lives after their experiences of torture.