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DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)\, 
 the 91ºÚÁÏÍø Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) presents a 
 seminar in a series on Women's Rights in Afghanistan. The event will take 
 place at mcgill.zoom.us/j/86016246892\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n	Ghizaal Haress\, Om
 budsperson for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan\, Professor\, American 
 University of Afghanistan.\n	Palwasha L. Kakar\, Interim Director\, Religio
 n and Inclusive Societies program\, U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP).\n	Hamid
  M. Saboory\, Constitutional Expert and Human Rights Advocate.\n\n\nWith r
 emarks by Professor Homa Hoodfar (Concordia)\, and moderated by Professor 
 Vrinda Narain (91ºÚÁÏÍø Law).\n\nGhizaal Haress is currently the Ombudsperso
 n for Islamic Republic of Afghanistan\, the first woman to ever lead an an
 ti-corruption institution in Afghanistan. The Office of the Ombudsperson i
 s mandated to inspect the allegations of corruption for high governmental 
 officials. Prior to that\, she was a Commissioner at the Afghanistan Indep
 endent Commission for Overseeing the Implementation of the Constitution\, 
 where she\, as the only female Commissioner\, led the institutions work on
  constitutional interpretation and developing legal opinions. She is also 
 an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Afghanistan. A
  constitutional lawyer\, Ghizaal has written many articles on the Constitu
 tion of Afghanistan. She has earned her LLM from School of Oriental and Af
 rican Studies\, University of London\, and an LLB from Kabul University.\n
 \nPalwasha L. Kakar is the Interim Director of the Religion and Inclusive 
 Societies program at U.S. Institute of Peace. Kakar joined USIP after four
  years with The Asia Foundation where she was the Afghanistan director for
  Women’s Empowerment and Development. Prior to joining the Foundation\, sh
 e led the Gender Mainstreaming and Civil Society Unit in the United Nation
  Development Program's Afghanistan Subnational Governance Program managing
  a small grants program for Afghanistan's civil society initiatives. Kakar
  also served as program manager for The Gender Studies Institute at Kabul 
 University. She has experience working with the World Bank Group on gender
 \, social justice and environmental issues surrounding their various proje
 cts in the region. Kakar moved to Afghanistan 2004 to work with the Afghan
 istan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)\, an independent research organi
 zation\, on women's participation at the local levels in the National Soli
 darity Program (NSP). Before moving to Afghanistan\, she was the director 
 of the Newton Peace Center (currently Peace Connections) a faith-based civ
 il society organization. An Afghan-American\, she has experience teaching 
 and researching religion\, gender\, security and local governance. Kakar h
 as published research regarding women’s participation in local governance\
 , Pashtunwali-Afghan customary law\, Afghan women's identity\, and social 
 spaces in Afghanistan. Her research has taken her to Afghanistan\, Pakista
 n\, Bangladesh\, Egypt\, Israel\, Palestine\, Jordan and Syria. She earned
  a Master's degree focusing on gender\, politics and religion from Harvard
  University’s Divinity School and a Bachelor's degree in Religion and Glob
 al Studies focusing on peace and conflict from Bethel College in North New
 ton\, KS.\n\nHamid M. Saboory is an independent constitutional law researc
 her. Formerly\, he was a visiting lecturer of Constitutional and Internati
 onal Law at Kardan University where he previously served as the Dean of th
 e Law Faculty. Prior to this\, Mr. Saboory served as a Country Director fo
 r the International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development\, a
  Canadian NGO\, and as an Acting Director of Strategic Communication in th
 e Office of the National Security Council of Afghanistan. He has also work
 ed for various organizations such as METIS Solutions\, a Washington-based 
 private company\, the Harvard Program for Conflict Research\, the Internat
 ional Development Law Organization\, the Max Planck Institute for Foreign 
 and Private International Law (MPI-Hamburg)\, and the Bar Human Rights Com
 mission of England and Wales. A regular contributor to Foreign Policy\, Th
 e Diplomat and the Huffington Post\, he writes about regional\, political\
 , security\, and strategic issues. Mr. Saboory holds a BA in Law from Kabu
 l University (2002)\, a MA in Near Eastern Studies from New York Universit
 y (2009) and a MA in International Relations from Syracuse University (200
 9).\n
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LOCATION:Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86016246892
SUMMARY:Entrenching Women’s Rights: The Promise and Potential of the Consti
 tution
URL:/law/channels/event/entrenching-womens-rights-prom
 ise-and-potential-constitution-329168
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