Book launch: Only Rape! Human Rights and Gender Equality for Refugee Women

During this hybrid event Professor Jane McAdam will moderate a panel discussion with the book’s authors, Eileen Pittaway and Linda Bartolomei and one of their key collaborators, Apajok Biar – a former refugee from Sudan and Chair of the Women Gender and Diversity Working Group, Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network.

They will share a series of short film clips of their work with refugee women and girls in refugee camps and at the United Nations and discuss their motivations for their 33 years of research and advocacy to address sexual and gender-based violence and support gender equality for refugee women and girls, and the importance of rigorous academic analysis as part of advocacy. Apajok Biar will speak briefly to her part in this research and advocacy journey and to the importance of working with refugee women and girls as equal partners.

The book will be launched by Professor Jan Breckenridge.

Participants will be invited to join and informal afternoon tea following the event.