BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Davis Center: "Russian Gender-based Discrimination Cases and the European Court of Human Rights; Barriers and Opportunities" PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_340226_0 SUMMARY:Davis Center: "Russian Gender-based Discrimination Cases and the European Court of Human Rights; Barriers and Opportunities" DESCRIPTION:

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has become a focal point for citizens across Council of Europe member states to try to obtain legal remedies for their claims of domestic human rights violations. Approximately 11,000 Russian cases now sit in the Court's case pipeline. Yet very few of these cases have involved human rights claims based on gender discrimination. Why is this the case, despite the widespread popularity of ECtHR claims across Russia, and ongoing prevalence of evident gender-based discrimination?

Speaker(s): 

Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Associate Professor of Political Science, The University of British Columbia
Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political Science, Clark University; Center Associate, Davis Center

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

LOCATION:CGIS South S354, 1730 Cambridge St. STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20150312T201500Z DTEND:20150312T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR