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DESCRIPTION:The Equality Effect is a unique\ninitiative that brings togethe
 r leading human rights experts in\nKenya\, Malawi\, Ghana\, and Canada to 
 conduct ground-breaking legal\nwork on women's human rights issues\, effec
 tively using\ninternational human rights law to improve the lives of women
  and\ngirls.\nJoin us in celebrating the official launch of this dynamic\n
 organization\, learn about the opportunities to contribute to and\nsupport
  its work\, and hear from two of its human rights lawyers:\nFiona Sampson 
 & Pearl\nEliadis.\nAmongst other initiatives\, come and learn about its\ng
 roundbreaking '160 Girls Project'. Equality Effect's lawyers have\njoined 
 Kenyan colleagues and politicians at their request in a\nlegal challenge t
 o force the Kenyan government to enforce existing\nlaws against the sexual
  torture of children. The project has\nbrought together 160 Kenyan rape vi
 ctims under the age of 18 to\nfight for protection. Essentially\, the grou
 p is trying for a Kenyan\nversion of what Jane Doe managed when she sued t
 he Toronto Police\nDepartment over rape-challenging the way rape victims a
 re\nsubsequently treated by police and the legal system.\nThis event is co
 -sponsored by the 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Law Women's Caucus\,\n91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Centre for Human Rig
 hts and Legal Pluralism\, the Human\nRights Working Group\, and the Sexual
  Assault Law Seminar at\n91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ.\nRefreshments will be served.\nSpeaker bi
 os\nFiona Sampson - B.A.\, M.A.\, LL.B.\, Ph. D.:\nFiona Sampson is the Pr
 oject Director for the equality effect.\nFiona originally conceived of the
  equality effect in 2005\, in\ncollaboration with friends and colleagues f
 rom Africa at the\nOsgoode Hall Law School graduate program. Fiona has wor
 ked as a\nStaff Lawyer and as the Director of Litigation at the Women's Le
 gal\nEducation and Action Fund (LEAF). Fiona has appeared as counsel\nbefo
 re the Supreme Court of Canada on many occasions representing\nwomen's NGO
 's in different equality rights cases. Fiona has worked\nas a legal consul
 tant with\, amongst others\, the Ontario Native\nCouncil on Justice\, the 
 DisAbled Women's Network (DAWN) of Canada\,\nEducation Wife Assault\, and 
 the Ethiopian Muslim Relief and\nDevelopment Association. Fiona has publis
 hed numerous articles on\nwomen's equality rights and has her Ph.D. in wom
 en's equality law\nfrom Osgoode Hall Law School\, York University.\nPearl 
 Eliadis:\nPearl is a human rights lawyer who works internationally and in
 \nCanada on civil\, political\, economic\, social and cultural rights. A\n
 graduate of 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ and Oxford Universities\, she is involved in\npressing 
 for social justice issues at the community level\,\nincluding as past Pres
 ident of Equitas and of the Shield of Athena\,\na CSO working to prevent v
 iolence against women and children. Since\n1995\, she has been retained by
  the UN\, the European Union and\ninternational consortia as a senior advi
 sor in Ethiopia\,\nJordan/Iraq\, Nepal\, Timor Leste and Sri Lanka\, as we
 ll as in Rwanda\nin the aftermath of the genocide. Pearl has co-edited thr
 ee books\non international human rights\, public administration and public
 \npolicy. She is the winner of the 2006 Woman of Distinction Award\,\nthe 
 Canada 125 Medal for community service and the 2009 Montreal\n'Woman of th
 e Year' award in recognition of her human rights\nwork.\n
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LOCATION:Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:The Equality Effect Launch: Effecting Equality through Groundbreaki
 ng Human Rights Initiatives and African-Canadian Partnerships
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