Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict
Dates: 28-30 May 2011
Location: Montebello, Quebec, Canada
Description
Over 120 civil society activists, corporate and security sector leaders, military and peacekeeping personnel and academics convened to discuss and share ideas at the conference.
“Waging war on the bodies of women has got to stop,” says Jody Williams. “Like any tactic of war, it can be eliminated. The magnitude of the problem must be matched by our collective effort. Working together, we can finally bring an end to this scourge on women and their communities.”
Laureates
Mairead Maguire
Jody Williams
Shirin Ebadi
Find out more
Conference Report
Women Forging a New Security: Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict
Videos
Day 2: Making the impossible possible: Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams
Panel 1: Prevention and Protection – Women Forging a New Security
Photos
Women Forging a New Security (Flickr)
Open Democracy Conference Blog posts
Jane Gabriel | Women: redefining peace, democracy and security, 18 May 2011
Masim Momaya and Lydia Alpizar | Redefining security: human rights and economic justice, 18 May 2011
Cynthia Cockburn | Who do they think they are? War rapists as people, 19 May 2011
Jessica Horn | Sexual violence: the healing imperative, 19 May 2011
Maria Neophytou | Sexual violence and war: inevitable?, 19 May 2011
Jenny Morgan | Crime not shame: challenging the ideology of rape, 27 November 2012
Hashtag
#endrapeinwar