SCHEDULE DETAILS Event Schedules
-
10.00 AM – 12.00 PM
Openning Ceremony
-
7:00 pm
Dinner at Chez Ali
-
9.00 AM - 10.30 AM
Speaker 01Plenary 1: Celebrating Success
Since the IAWJ last gathered in person four years ago, much has changed. Members have innovated, broken glass ceilings, and thrived. In this panel we will hear from members about successes in their courts or their careers; listen to their reflections on how that success was achieved; and discuss the lessons that were learned for the future. We will also hear about innovations that arose from COVID-19 and other crises and those that led to long term change.
-
11.00 AM - 12.30 PM
Speaker 02Plenary 2: Empowering Women Judges
In 2022, IAWJ received a Women in Leadership in the Law grant from Co Impact/New Venture Futures to promote the leadership of women in the judiciary. In this panel, IAWJ staff and grant partners will describe the work it is doing as part of this initiative; how is it currently working with five IAWJ members associations; and discuss the future of the partnership. Initiative partners will also speak about their experiences with the project thus far.
-
1.30 PM - 3.00 PM
Speaker 03
Plenary 3: Afghanistan and the IAWJ
The women judges of Afghanistan have long risked their lives to uphold the rule of law. With the return of the Taliban to power in the country and the fall of Kabul, their position became untenable; leaving Afghanistan was a life-saving necessity. In this panel you will hear from some of the Afghan women judges about their experiences and from the IAWJ Afghan Women Judges Committee about the efforts to rescue and support them.
-
3.30 PM - 5.00 PM
Speaker 04
Plenary 4: Towards more inclusive justice
How have the courts responded to the needs of persons for whom they were not designed? In this panel, we will hear about initiatives from around the world designed to ensure inclusive justice for such persons, including those from minority groups, unrepresented litigants, youth, parties and witnesses affected by disability, and litigants who do not speak the court language.
-
9.00 AM - 10.30 AM
Speaker 05
Plenary 5: Trauma informed courts
Many of those appearing before our courts as both witnesses and parties are suffering from trauma. This trauma can be individual, collective (such as from the long-term effects of colonization), or both. The most recent of our anti-human trafficking grants, in Kenya and Uganda, have focused on the impact of trauma on witness testimony and the strategies for making courts more accessible to traumatized parties and witnesses. This panel will share some of the lessons learned from those projects as well as hearing about how trauma has been accommodated in other contexts.
-
11.00 AM - 12.30 PM
Speaker 06
Plenary 6: Gender based violence
This panel will cover innovations in dealing with gender-based violence in the courts, including in both criminal and family law cases. Topics to be discussed include the institutional abuse of those in care and cyberviolence.
-
1.30 PM - 3.00 PM
Speaker 07
Plenary 7: Trafficking and migration
Human trafficking can take place in a single country, but often migration and human trafficking are interrelated. Migrants may become trafficking victims at the hands of those they pay to get them across a national border and often lack the protective networks that might shield them from trafficking., This panel will examine how judges have responded and should respond to the intersections of migration and human trafficking and to trafficking more generally.
-
3.30 PM - 5.30 PM
Visit to Palais de Justice