Crimes against humanity, gender and the responsibility to protect

APR2P and JANA are proud to present a discussion on the proposed international treaty on Crimes Against Humanity, the role such a treaty could play in atrocity prevention, and the link between accountability and the Responsibility to Protect.

 

The event will also explore the aspect of gender in crimes against humanity, including sexual and gender-based violence in Iraq and Syria and gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

 

International criminal law expert

Keynote speaker Sareta Ashraph is a barrister specialised in international criminal law. Sareta has expertise in the gender-competent and intersectional analyses of the commission and impact of international crimes. She is a Senior Legal Consultant to the Center for Justice & Accountability, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project. She is a primary drafter of the 2023 legal brief advocating for the codification of the crime of gender apartheid in the draft Crimes Against Humanity Treaty.

 

Legal advisor for the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council

Azadah Raz Mohammad is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. She has worked with Afghanistan’s justice institutions, Administrative Office of the Afghan President and as an adjunct lecturer of law at American University of Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the “Handbook on Universal Jurisdiction: Holding the Taliban Accountable for International Crimes”.

 

Staff Attorney with the US-based Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA)

Ahmad works with documentation partners to pursue legal accountability for core international crimes. He has been with CJA since joining as a Legal Fellow after graduating from UCLA School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of UCLA’s Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs. While in law school, he interned with the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria (IIIM) in Geneva and the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague. Previously, he worked for Syrian NGOs and contracted on research and implementation projects for the US State Department and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.