Women and girls are all too frequently targets of sexual violence in contexts of mass atrocity. What is being done in the world to address this, how are these crimes being documented and prosecuted, and what are gaps to better protection ? Please join us for this presentation by Daniela Kravetz, international human rights attorney and law professor, who will share her extensive knowledge of this important but often overlooked topic.
Daniela Kravetz is an attorney with experience in human rights, accountability, gender-based violence and access to justice in conflict and post-conflict settings. She has worked extensively across Latin America, Africa, and the former-Yugoslavia, focusing on fact-finding, criminal prosecutions, and policy development. Over this past decade, Daniela has also provided technical assistance to domestic justice institutions in the promotion of women’s rights, the rule of law and accountability for gender-based crimes. She has also served as international human rights and gender expert on various emblematic cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Previously, Daniela served with the United Nations in different capacities, including as the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation of Eritrea of the UN Human Rights Council (2018-2020), as the international humanitarian law expert of the UN Security Council mandated Panel of Experts on the Sudan (2016-2018), and as a trial attorney at the Office of the Prosecution of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2005-2014). Daniela teaches international human rights law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Calgary and at American University Washington College of Law, in Washington D.C.