Join us as for a special lecture honoring International Women's week, 2013.

It has become fashionable in recent years to classify violence against women through its various manifestations: "rape as a tool of war", "honour killings", and "domestic violence", to name but a few. These labels provide important tools for understanding and remedying what has been called a global scourge. But do all these labels hide a more profound and disturbing reality?

Using examples ranging from Canada to Kenya, Pearl Eliadis will explore the role that tacit community support and silence play in perpetrating atrocities against infant girls, girl children, and women around the world. She will also outline the role that we all can play in helping to stop it.

Light refreshments will be served.

About the Speaker:
Pearl Eliadis is a lawyer, author and lecturer whose law practice focuses on human rights, national institutions and democratic governance. A graduate of McGill and Oxford, her clients include the UN, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the European Commission and international NGOs. As past President of the Shield of Athena, she served for more than a decade at the award-winning organization that works with women and communities to combat domestic violence. She is the author of numerous books and articles on human rights. She teaches civil liberties at McGill's Faculty of Law and is a member of the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.