Online courses “Conflict-related sexual violence: legal regulation and practice”
On July 21-31, 2022 online training course “Conflict-related sexual violence: legal regulation and practice” took place.
Aim of the training – to give human rights defenders, representatives of law enforcement bodies, judges, and lawyers an understanding of what conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) is, how to protect the survivors, outline the practice of prosecuting persons who committed the CRSV in armed conflicts that have taken place in history. Everyone who will take part in this course will receive the necessary base of knowledge and skills to work with CRSV cases and survivors.
Target audience:
- human rights defenders working with the CRSV
- lawyers, representing survivors of the CRSV or engaged in investigation and documentation of the sexual violence
- specialists of law enforcement bodies, including police, prosecutor’s office as well as judges, who conduct investigation, prosecution and justice in proceedings on CRSV
📍21 July, 16:00 – opening (introduction from Kateryna Levchenko, Olena Sotnyk, Erika Kvapilova, Dr. Rebecka Koziomtzis) and first session «Characteristics of conflict-related sexual violence». Expert: Rosette Muzigo-Morrison
📍23 July, 16.00 – second session «International law and conflict-related sexual violence». Expert: Susan Lamb
📍28 July, 16.00 – third session «Ukrainian national legislation and practice related to sexual violence». Expert: Vira Levko
📍31 July, 16.00 – fourth session «Conflict-related sexual violence; case building». Expert: Еmma Pountney
🟡Experts:
🔹Rosette Muzigo-Morrison – in June 2022: among the 12 finalists shortlisted for the role of Registrar, International Criminal Court. Until recently, worked as a Legal Advisor in the Legal Advisory Section of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. In this role, Rosette also coordinated the implementation of the sexual and gender-based crimes’ policy and the training of high-level NATO officers in investigating, prosecution and mitigating sexual and gender-based crimes during crisis situations. Prior to joining the ICC, Rosette worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
🔸Susan Lamb – Justice of the Supreme Court of Belize, Criminal Division, with a substantial docket in particular in sexual crimes. She is also an internationally-recognized expert in international criminal and humanitarian law, with significant investigative, prosecutorial, judicial support, advocacy and diplomatic experience before various United Nations international and hybrid criminal tribunals like International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In May 2022, was rostered to the Legal Task Force on Accountability for Crimes Committed in Ukraine.
🔹Vira Levko – Judge of the Dniprovskyi District Court of Kyiv City, judge-speaker, coach of the National School of Judges of Ukraine, member of the Ukrainian Women Lawyers Association “JurFem”.
🔸Emma Pounteny – since 2009 Emma Pountney has worked at four of the international criminal courts, ICTY, ECCC, KSPO (Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office) and STL. Emma drafted SGBV components of judgments at the ICTY and at the ECCC, covering the crimes of rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment and crimes of gender identity, as well as forced marriage. Investigated SGBV crimes working for the investigating judges in Cambodia and the prosecutorial investigations in Kosovo.
The event was held by the Ukrainian Women Lawyers Association “JurFem” with the support of the UN Women project “Transformational approaches on achieving gender equality in Ukraine” financed by the Sweden Government and in cooperation with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration and the Government Commissioner for Gender Policy.
As well as in cooperation with Charity Foundation “Future for Ukraine”, Faculty of Law of the Vilnius University and The Center Against Human Trafficking and Exploitation (KOPZI).