Human Rights for Women – 2020

Sue England will present and discuss Human Rights for Women over 6 weekly 45min sessions from the 22nd of July, and you're all welcome to join!

What: Six sessions, starting on 22nd July and running for six weeks. 45 min presentation, then questions and discussion

When: Wednesdays 9.30 – 11am (CET)

Where: Skype – contact Sue by e-mail, or contact Munich Welsh

These Human Rights for Women presentations were first developed by Sue England for her local club in Germany. They were successful and are now offered throughout the FAWCO network and to others outside FAWCO. It is a series for people who are not trained in Law, but have an interest in human rights and the use women can make of them. They will not be recorded, but the PowerPoints may be obtained later.

FAWCO is a global women’s NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation), with representative status at the UN. Sue studied law and economics and worked around the world as a lawyer specialising in European law (it does exist!) and then taught international human rights law and European Union law at British universities.

At present, with the world-wide backlash against women’s rights, that so concerned the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in his speech on 24th February this year and the major impact that COVID-19 will have on all our lives, Sue thinks we need to know about and protect our human rights more than ever.

The Secretary-General said he was concerned about, “setbacks to women's rights, alarming levels of feminicide, attacks on women's rights defenders, and the persistence of laws and policies that perpetuate submission and exclusion”.

“Violence against women and girls”, he said, “is the most widespread human rights violation”.

The facts and law are real, the opinions are Sue’s, and not FAWCO’s.