Transitional Justice – A way of fighting sexualized violence during warfare

20 December 2011 On 3 November 2011, ECCHR held an expert talk in cooperation with the Gunda Wernder Institute on the theme “Transitional Justice – A means of fighting sexualized violence during warfare.” The talk built on the results of a conference held in the institute in October 2010, and followed the May 2011 talk “Militarized Masculinity in (Post-) Conflict Regions”.

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Femicide in Latin America – Possible strategies against impunity for gender-specific violence

On 7 March 2011 an expert roundtable was held in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll foundation to discuss the phenomenon of femicide in Latin America, Mexico in particular. ECCHR invited twenty participants to discuss means of raising European awareness of the problem and to analyze possible strategies for tackling the impunity often enjoyed by those who commit gender-specific violence.

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Failure to implement reproductive rights in the EU pushes women towards unsafe abortions

Worldwide restrictive abortion laws continue to lead to unsafe abortions and women die as a consequence. Within the EU, there are still countries in which the termination of a pregnancy is still an illegal act. Indeed, on average 16 women travel daily from Ireland to England in order to receive a safe abortion.

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Conference on feminicides in Central America

On the occasion of the international day for the abolition of violence against women on 25 November, a conference "Ni una muerta mas - Balance y Perspectivas" (No more violence against women: State of play and perspectives) took place in Brussels on 19 November 2009.

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