The School of Law of the University of Nicosia hosts the One Woman At A Time (OWAAT) event entitled What is the Istanbul Convention and why IC matters.
Programme
| 09.30-10.00 | Registration |
| 10.00-10.20 | Opening Addresses Professor Achilles Emilianides, Dean, School of Law, University of Nicosia Patricia M. Martin, Esq. Attorney At Law USA, Founder of OWAAT Cyprus Aimed To End Gender-based Discrimination: Why the Istanbul Convention prohibitions affect anyone everywhere – long before ‘domestic violence against women’ erupts |
| 10.20-10:30 | Dr Anna Plevri, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Nicosia, Attorney at Law (Greece/Cyprus), Mediator and Mediator’s Trainer, Domestic Violence Scholar The Istanbul Convention as a legal tool for the protection on women rights in Cyprus |
| 10.30-10.40 | Dr Charalambos Papageorgiou, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, European University Cyprus, Former Member of the Cyprus Parliament Cultural Relativism: An enemy of gender equality underlying values of human rights conventions and the Istanbul Convention |
| 10.40-10:50 | Dr Christiana Cleridou, Legal Advocate, International Human Rights Law and Gender Equality Expert Specialist, Cyprus IC-CY: My 3 things ‘To Do |
| 10.50-11.00 | Susana Pavlou, Director, Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, Cyprus The ‘One Stop Shop’ model as an integrated approach to IC specialized services |
| 11.00-11.10 | Anna Koukkides-Prokopiou, Senior Fellow and Member of Advisory Board Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Why feminist leadership matters: The IC in the Feminist v. Female discussion on the importance for having women decision-makers |
| 11.10-11.20 | Sophia Papastavrou, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto Beyond The Numbers: Why IC-CY matters to me as social scientist, mother, wife, public policy maker, woman in Cyprus |
| 11:20-11:30 | Discussion Chair: Patricia M. Martin, Esq., USA, Attorney At Law and Founder of OWAAT Cyprus |
| 11.30-12.00 | Coffee and refreshments |
Please see the PDF invitation here.
