Rights, Action, and Accountability: Tackling Gender-based Violence and HIV in Southern Africa

Date: 

Thursday, September 28, 2017, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

WCC 3016, 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

Join the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School for a talk by Dean Peacock, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Sonke Gender Justice, an award winning South African NGO working across Africa to prevent gender-based violence, reduce the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS, and promote human rights. Dean is a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Francisco Center for AIDS Prevention Studies and is an honorary senior lecturer at University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health. He is an internationally recognized expert on masculinities and serves on many advisory boards, including the Nobel Women’s Initiative Campaign to Stop Rape and Domestic Violence in Conflict, and was a member of the U.N. Secretary General’s Network of Men Leaders. Lunch will be served.

ORGANIZER(S): The Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School
EVENT WEBSITE: http://hrp.law.harvard.edu/events/rights-action-and-accountability-tackl...