Karima Bennoune (Algeria/USA) is the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights and a professor of international law at the University of California–Davis School of Law.
Yakin Ertürk (Turkey), is the Research Director for WLP's Family Law Reform initiative. She has held numerous international human rights mandates including Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women.
Ann Mayer (USA) is an expert in international human rights law and a former Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
President and Founder, Women's Learning Partnership
Please join us in launching WLP's global advocacy campaign for our multi-country initiative, Family Law Reform to Challenge Gender Based Violence. We invite you to watch the premiere of our new documentary film, Equality: It's All in the Family and join our discussion on the impact of discriminatory family laws on women and societies around the world. This campaign was carried out with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada.
Panelists will include Karima Bennoune (Algeria/USA), Yakin Ertürk (Turkey), Ann Mayer (USA), Joy Ngwakwe (Nigeria), and Jacqueline Pitanguy (Brazil).
Leading up to May 15th, International Day of Families 2019, WLP will hold a Partnership-wide digital awareness campaign including to raise awareness about the need for #GenderEqualityinFamily. Our partners, allies, and followers will be able to engage with our campaign by sharing info-graphic facts about inequality in the family and attending a webinar hosted by WLP staff and partners.
Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) launches the publication of the family law research anthology, Feminist Advocacy, Family Law and Violence against Women: International Perspectives, on November 1, 2018.
