Women Fighting Back: International and Legal Perspectives


Women Fighting Back: International and Legal Perspectives

An international women’s conference bringing a critical, left-wing and intersectional perspective to the women’s movement.

  • Saturday 28 November – Sunday 29 November 2015
  • Southbank University, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA

Speakers include:

  • Angela Davis (USA) – University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies, and founding member of the prison abolitionist group Critical Resistance
  • Rashida Manjoo (South Africa) – the former (2009-2014) UN Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Professor in the Department of Public Law, Cape Town
  • Lilian Hofmeister (Austria) – CEDAW, Substitute Justice at the Austrian Constitutional Court
  • Wafa Kafarna (Palestine) – Norwegian Refugee Council and Palestinian activist
  • Liz Davies (UK) – Housing Rights Lawyer, honorary Vice-President of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
  • Jeanne Mirer (USA) – President of IADL, founding board member of the International Commission for Labour Rights
  • Frances Webber (UK) – vice-chair of the Institute of Race Relations

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Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers


Organised by the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers.