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Rangita de Silva

@rangitadesilva

International Women's Rights Scholar and Assoc. Dean for International @PennLaw

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Expert Group meeting on intersectionality at OHCHR What are the growing categories of intersectionality? How can they inform the gender policy on gender persecution?

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In a summer and fall of changing conflict, grateful to work with Columbia's Journal of Transnational Law, Penn Law's International Law Journal, Georgetown's International law Journal, UW Journal of Tech, & Cambridge Press on addressing pressing global issues through a gender lens

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General Recommendation 40 of the CEDAW's second reading adopted! Historic language on the urgent regulation of Lethal Autonomous Weapons System (LAWS) with guidelines on strict human control &consistent with International Humanitarian Laws and WPS.

General Recommendation 40 of the CEDAW's second reading adopted! 
Historic language on the urgent regulation of Lethal Autonomous Weapons System (LAWS) with guidelines on strict human control &consistent with International Humanitarian Laws and WPS.
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What a historic day -The High Commissioner for Human Rights names a crime without a name Gender Apartheid - an intention to maintain an institutionalized regime of systemic domination of one gender over another. GR 40 is the first international normative framework to give name

What a historic day -The High Commissioner  for Human Rights names a crime without a name Gender Apartheid - an intention to maintain an institutionalized regime of systemic domination of one gender over another. GR 40 is the first international normative framework to give name
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Today I speak before states parties on WPS - We need to expand the WPS agenda in the face of the changing nature of conflict. Women's bodies are not the only battle grounds in conflict. Women's minds are battlegrounds for power and control.

Today I speak before states parties on WPS - We need to expand the WPS agenda in the face of the changing nature of conflict.  Women's bodies are not the only battle grounds in conflict. Women's minds are battlegrounds for power and control.
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Xie Jia Vice President of the Fulian - All China Women's Federation and its affiliated China Women's University-looking forward to marking Beijing +30. The genesis of much of the equality laws grew out of the 1995 women's world conference.

Xie Jia Vice President of the  Fulian - All China Women's Federation and its affiliated China Women's University-looking forward to marking Beijing +30. The genesis of much of the equality laws grew out of the 1995 women's world conference.
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Back in class on WPS University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School & Wharton teaching Resolution 2417, intentional starvation of civilians may constitute a war crime. Hunger must not be weaponized. My students discussing Article 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the Rome Statute proscribing intentionally using starvation of civilians

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Best experience at Geneva was to learn from indigenous women leaders and then to speak of indigenous data sovereignty with the New Zealand Gov.

Best experience at Geneva was to learn from indigenous women leaders and then to speak of indigenous data sovereignty with the New Zealand Gov.
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And with the Supreme Court Justice of Chile on the Inter American Court's decision on forced disappearances and sexual abuse during the military regime.

And with the Supreme Court Justice of Chile on the Inter American Court's decision on forced disappearances and sexual abuse during the military regime.
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Two stars in my class: Catherine Amirfar secured the 1st ruling from an International Tribunal on States' legal obligations to address climate change. & Amy E Weaver President of Salesforce, the top AI CRM. Watch her commencement address:   youtube.com/watch?v=Co0TQk…

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.Karen Tani concludes her erudite lecture with a quote from the Prophetic Imagination: " It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep conjuring &proposing alternatives to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one."

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.Karen Tani concludes her erudite lecture with a quote from the Prophetic Imagination: " It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep conjuring &proposing alternatives to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one."

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My friend Amy E Weaver president of Salesforce- the #1 AI CRM, has redefined leadership & uses the business platform for the global public good, including showing us how to close the gender pay gap. Thank you for inspiring my students University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

My friend <a href="/amy_e_weaver/">Amy E Weaver</a> president of Salesforce- the #1 AI CRM, has redefined leadership &amp; uses the business platform for the global public good, including showing us how to close the gender pay gap. Thank you for inspiring my students <a href="/pennlaw/">University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School</a>
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Glad to be part of the "Expert Convening on the Gender Persecution Principles of the International Criminal Court" at Loyola University, Chicago to inform the ICC's principles of gender persecution. My article on Piercing the Veil of Impunity is background material.

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A panel discussion last Wednesday with Shukria Barakzai Fawzia Koofi Naheed A. Farid Hanifa Ghirowal, Catherine Amirfar, Payam Akhavan, Valerie Ootserverld & Gissou Nia | گیسو نیا on CEDAW & Accountability. My fabulous Harvard University student Muqtader Omari as Rapporteur.

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With my much-admired friend mayaharris - distinguished legal expert, policy expert, & gender expert. She dropped everything when I asked her to join my students.

With my much-admired friend <a href="/mayaharris/">mayaharris</a> - distinguished legal expert, policy expert, &amp; gender expert.  She dropped everything when I asked her to join my students.
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My great ally craig newmark, tech pioneer & founder of Craigslist in my class University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School on his philanthropic work on cybersecurity & supporting a gender perspective in Wikipedia. In his words- "the history of our times must be written by female editors."

My great ally <a href="/craignewmark/">craig newmark</a>, tech pioneer &amp; founder of Craigslist in my class <a href="/pennlaw/">University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School</a> on his philanthropic work on cybersecurity &amp; supporting a gender perspective in Wikipedia. In his words- "the history of our times must be written by female editors."