Transitional Justice Institute: Public Lectures and Events – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this webinar PhD researchers and staff at Ulster University discuss what is it like to do a PhD in Law at Ulster. PhD researchers Roua Al-Taweel, Micheál Hearty and Leah Rea discuss why they wanted to do a PhD, their experience of applying to Ulster and their PhD journey to date. Prof Rory O'Connell then discusses the studentship opportunities at Ulster and Prof Karen Fleming highlights the AHRC Northern Bridge DTP. Prof Siobhán Wills outlines the work of the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) and Prof Gráinne McKeever research on law and social justice. The session concludes with Prof Cath Collins who explains the components of a research proposal.

Professor Monica McWilliams was a founding member of the Women’s Coalition, a Member of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland and Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2005-2011), Oversight Commissioner for prison reform in Northern Ireland (2011–2015) and is on the Independent Reporting Commission for the disbandment of paramilitary organisations. Monica has been the author of numerous publications, including groundbreaking research on domestic and intimate partner violence in Northern Ireland. She is a specialist in conflict resolution, chaired Interpeace, an international peacebuilding NGO, and served on the Board of Trocaire, the Irish development agency. She has worked with women’s groups in conflict zones world-wide, most recently with Syrian women involved in the negotiations in Geneva.

Stand Up, Speak Out charts Monica’s activism over the decades from the civil rights protests in the 1960s to her involvement in the women’s movement and the founding of the Women’s Coalition. It also includes her role in the signing and implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Prof Fidelma Ashe acted as discussant following opening remarks by Prof McWilliams. Our PhD researchers Nada Ahmed Mostafa Kamal Ahmed and Caitriona Mackel co-chaired the event.

This is part of TJI’s ‘What’s the Craic? Seminar Series’ organised by our PhD researchers Nada Ahmed Mostafa Kamal Ahmed and Caitriona Mackel.

This is a recording of an event organised by the Transitional Justice institute Ulster University and Federal University of Goiás Panellists: Ana Paula Oliveira (Mothers of Manguinhos), Monica Cruz (Justica Global) Ulisses Terto Neto (TJI and UFG), Siobhán Wills (TJI)

At this seminar, part of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival, members of the Constitutional Conversations Group discussed the rights and equality commitments that remain outstanding from the Belfast Good Friday Agreement The seminar features a few short presentations from the group on 'Rights & Wrongs' followed by a Q&A session. Presenters included Eilish Rooney, Mark Bassett, John Gormley, Paddy Kelly and Colin Harvey.

At this TJI public seminar, part of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival, Prof Rachel Rebouché discussed the most recent challenges to reproductive rights in the US.

Dean Rebouché shared her thoughts on recent legislation and court cases including cases that are making their way through the court system in the United States, and which may wind up before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Rachel Rebouché is the Interim Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law and the James E. Beasley Professor of Law. Prior to her appointment as Interim Dean, she was the Associate Dean for Research, a position she held from 2017 to 2021. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Temple’s Center for Public Health Law Research.

Dean Rebouché is a leading scholar in reproductive health law, feminist legal theory, and family law. She is an author of Governance Feminism: An Introduction and an editor of Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. She is also the editor of Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten, published by Cambridge University Press, and an author of the sixth edition of the casebook, Family Law, with Professors Leslie Harris and June Carbone. In addition, she is writing a book on reproductive health law that is under contract with NYU Press and editing a collection of essays for Law & Contemporary Problems on the pandemic’s effects on issues in contract law.

Dean Rebouché has served as a co-investigator on two grant-funded research projects related to reproductive health, one housed at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and another funded by the World Health Organization. Her recent research also includes articles in law reviews and in peer-reviewed journals on relational contracts, gestational surrogacy, prenatal genetic testing and genetic counseling, collaborative divorce, parental involvement laws, and international reproductive rights.

Dean Rebouché received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LL.M. from Queen’s University, Belfast, and a B.A. from Trinity University. Prior to law school, she worked as a researcher for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. After law school, Dean Rebouché clerked for Justice Kate O’Regan on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and practiced law in Washington, D.C., where she served as an associate director of adolescent health programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families (formerly, the Women’s Legal Defense Fund) and as a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Women’s Law Center.

Leah Rea (PhD researcher) and Dr Joanna McMinn will co-chair this event, with Prof Siobhán Wills (TJI Director) making opening remarks.

This final panel of the CEDAW and SOGI workshop addressed some cross-cutting issues (conflict, asylum, hate speech) and included final concluding reflections from Marion Bethel, current CEDAW Committee member.

Cross Cutting Issues

Lucia Baca (Colombia Diversa)

Niels-Erik Hansen (Immigration Lawyer)

Kseniya Kirichenko (IGLA-World (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association))

Concluding Reflections

Marion Bethel (Current Member of the CEDAW Committee)

Women’s enjoyment of the substantive rights guaranteed under CEDAW – legal equality, nationality, education, employment, health, economic and social life, rurality, family life, political participation – are inextricably informed and shaped in important ways by their sexual orientation and gender identity.

This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committee’s current approach to sexual orientation and gender identity and pinpointed areas for future development. The workshop aimed to make both a theoretical and practical contribution to the interpretation of CEDAW and to the activities of the CEDAW Committee, States, civil society and international organisations.

The workshop was organised by Dr Meghan Campbell (Birmingham University Law School), Dr Loveday Hodson (Leicester University Law School) and Dr Catherine O’Rourke (Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute).

The workshop was hosted by the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.

This panel of the CEDAW and SOGI workshop addressed health and education.

Speakers:

• Alexa Moore (Transgender Northern Ireland)

• Marisa Hutchinson (International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (Malaysia / Global South))

• Mel Duffy (Dublin City University)

Chair: Meghan Campbell

This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committee’s current approach to sexual orientation and gender identity and pinpoint areas for future development. The workshop aimed to make both a theoretical and practical contribution to the interpretation of CEDAW and to the activities of the CEDAW Committee, States, civil society and international organisations.

The workshop was organised by Dr Meghan Campbell (Birmingham University Law School), Dr Loveday Hodson (Leicester University Law School) and Dr Catherine O’Rourke (Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute).

The workshop was hosted by the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.

This episode continues our workshop on CEDAW and SOGI, with a panel focused on relationships and families.

Speakers:

• Danielle Roberts (HereNI)

• Imani Kimiri (National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission of Kenya)

Chair: Loveday Hodson (Leicester)

Women’s enjoyment of the substantive rights guaranteed under CEDAW – legal equality, nationality, education, employment, health, economic and social life, rurality, family life, political participation – are inextricably informed and shaped in important ways by their sexual orientation and gender identity.

This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committee’s current approach to sexual orientation and gender identity and pinpoint areas for future development. The workshop aimed to make both a theoretical and practical contribution to the interpretation of CEDAW and to the activities of the CEDAW Committee, States, civil society and international organisations.

The workshop was organised by Dr Meghan Campbell (Birmingham University Law School), Dr Loveday Hodson (Leicester University Law School) and Dr Catherine O’Rourke (Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute).

The workshop is hosted by the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.

This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committee’s current approach to sexual orientation and gender identity and pinpoint areas for future development. The workshop aimed to make both a theoretical and practical contribution to the interpretation of CEDAW and to the activities of the CEDAW Committee, States, civil society and international organisations.

This opening panel includes keynote addresses from:

• Lia Nadaria (Current Member of the CEDAW Committee)

• Victor Madrigal-Borloz (UN Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity)

The workshop was organised by Dr Meghan Campbell (Birmingham University Law School), Dr Loveday Hodson (Leicester University Law School) and Dr Catherine O’Rourke (Ulster University Transitional Justice Institute).

The workshop is hosted by the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University.