Time:
08/29/2016 - 11:30-08/29/2016 - 12:30
Room:
Cempaka Room at Puri Dalem Hotel
Session II: Gender Based Violence
Session Track:
Human Rights Workshop
This Workshop will be held over 1 day (29 August 2016) and is being co-organised by Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), Bridges Across Borders South East Asia Community Legal Education Initiative (BABSEACLE) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). These sessions will address current and pressing human rights issues and involve in depth discussions on steps to moving forward to improve the current human rights situation in the region. Each of the three areas to be covered in the workshop relates to one of AJAR’s core programs, focused on addressing mass human rights violations in contexts of transitions to democracy in the Asia Pacific region.
Speaker(s):
Galuh Wandita
Patrick Burgess
This session will explore the approaches that can be taken to address mass gender-based violations, including AJAR’s recent multiyear program in four Asian countries. This will include an introduction to a range tools developed to assist in working with victims of gender based violations and examples drawn from helping to build women victim’s networks in Indonesia, Timor Leste, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
