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DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Fortier
  Chair in International Arbitration & Commercial Law welcome Valérie V. Su
 hr\, University of Hamburg Law School. Professor Andrea Bjorklund will act
  as moderator.\n\nAbstract\n\nDespite some great improvements in their leg
 al as well as factual situation over the past decades\, sexual minorities 
 (LGBTI: Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender\, Intersex) still face mass
 ive state and non-state violence in many places. The presentation analyses
  whether the worst human rights violations specifically directed at LGBTI 
 are punishable under international criminal law\, as codified in the Rome 
 Statute (RS) of the International Criminal Court.\n\nThe focus lies on the
  question whether sexual and gender minorities—or at least parts of them—a
 re covered by the crime of persecution\, a crime against humanity codified
  in Article 7(1)(h) RS. Although sexual orientation and gender identity ar
 e not explicitly listed as prohibited grounds of persecution\, “gender” is
 —along with “other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissibl
 e under international law.” Drawing on insights from gender studies on the
  social construction of gender\, on the development of LGBTI human rights 
 and on general rules of interpretation\, the presentation will argue that 
 sexual orientation and gender identify are included in the first\, probabl
 y both grounds of persecution.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nValérie V. Suhr is 
 a PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg Law School and a research fel
 low to Prof. Nora Markard\, MA\, who is also her PhD supervisor. She studi
 ed law from 2009 until 2015 at the University of Hamburg Law School and in
  2011 at Leiden Law School as an Erasmus exchange student. She is currentl
 y a Michigan Grotius Research Scholar to the University of Michigan Law Sc
 hool. Previously\, she was a visiting scholar at the Grotius Centre for In
 ternational Legal Studies (Leiden University)\, the Irish Centre for Human
  Rights (National University of Ireland\, Galway) and the Lauterpacht Cent
 re for International Law (University of Cambridge\, England). She is one o
 f the editors of the international law blog voelkerrechtsblog.org. Her pri
 mary areas of research are international criminal law\, human rights law a
 nd gender and law. Her research is supported by a fellowship of the Studie
 nstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.\n\nThis event is eligible for inclusion as
  1.5 hours of continuing legal education as reported by members of the Bar
 reau du Québec.\n
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LOCATION:Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, 
 QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Persecution of Sexual Minorities as Crimes Against Humanity
URL:/law/channels/event/persecution-sexual-minorities-
 crimes-against-humanity-294733
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