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RECORDING                                                                                                                     PANEL III

 

Women's Rights as Human Rights

 

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Chair: Rebecca Smyth

Birmingham City University's Centre for Human Rights

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Locating Egyptian Feminist Practices in Counter Hegemonic Human Rights Spaces

Shaimaa Abdelkarim

University of Birmingham

 

Emerging Issues in Violence Against Women – Changes, Challenges and Opportunities

Reem Alsalem

UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls

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The UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls' Focus on Reasserting Gender Equality and Resisting Rollbacks: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

Melissa Upreti

Member, UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls

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The UN's Universal Periodic Review: Towards the Eradication of Violence Against Women?

Alice Storey

Birmingham City University

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