4th IARS International Annual Conference: Community-led

Solutions to Gender Inequality, Victimisation and Offending

15th December 2015, 9am 5pm
Location: The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Middle Temple Lane, London, EC4Y 9AT
The event will be co-chaired by Dr Theo Gavrielides- IARS Founder and Director & Simon Israel
Channel 4 Home Affairs Correspondent and IARS Patron

Overview

Keynote speakers

Over the last few decades, gender patterns in victimisation and offending have
changed. When put in the context of gender inequality, these patterns present serious
challenges for policy-making, legislation and practice. The IARS International Institute
has a mission to explore, test and disseminate bottom up, user-led and community
born ideas and methods that address persistent inequalities and social injustice.

Sir George Newman

Focusing on current issues of international significance, this years annual conference

will bring together affected women, policy-makers, researchers, funders and
practitioners to debate and publish cutting-edge work on:
Violence against women (e.g. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), forced marriages,

domestic violence, sexual violence);

Migration, Asylum & Gender (e.g. legal aid, detention centres, health and social
services);
Female Offenders (e.g. women with BAME background, mother offenders &
children, self-harm, foreign nationals);
Women-led, best practice models and responses to victimisation, lawbreaking and
injustice;
Understanding and addressing inequality, crime and victimisation through gender.
Cutting edge research on the above

The Surveillance Commissioner and IARS

Patron

Adv. Karen McKenzie

Head of Human Rights, Human Rights Unit,

Commonwealth Office

Professor Eleonore Kofman

Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship

at Middlesex University

Professor Margaret Greenfields

Professor of Social Policy at Buckinghamshire

New University and IARS Trustee

Simon Israel

Channel 4 Home Affairs Correspondent and

IARS Patron

Jude Watson

Violence against Women and Girls Strategy

Manager, Operations Directorate, Crown
Prosecution Service

Registration
Standard package ticket costs 60 and includes: Complementary copy of the book,
Abused No More: The Voices of Refugee and Asylum-seeking Women (9.99 RRP); CPD
certificate and participation at workshop sessions of choice.
IARS members discount of 50 includes the standard package. To claim the discount
the attendee should provide their unique number that was given once they registered as
members. To become a member please contact us at: contact@iars.org.uk
Students and unwaged individuals are given 75% off. To claim a 15 ticket, a student
must show a valid student ID upon check-in on the day of the event. This ticket does not
include the book.
To book please contact IARS at: Contact@iars.org.uk or call on +44(0) 20 7064 4380

Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

Who should attend?

The Content of this Conference has been independently

certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous
Professional Development (CPS) guidelines

This is an international event addressed to policy makers,

academics, researchers, affected women, criminal justice
professionals including prosecutors, judges, lawyers,
police officers, prison and probation staff, third party
key workers and anyone who is working directly with
vulnerable groups

A CPD certificate will be provided to registered delegates

upon request.

PROGRAMME
09:00 - 09:15

Registration & coffee - An opportunity to network

Welcome by Sir George Newman, IARS Patron, High Court Senior Judge and The Surveillance Commissioner

09:15 - 09:45

Setting the scene by the events chair - Dr. Theo Gavrielides - IARS Founder and Director and Simon Israel
- Channel 4 Home Affairs Correspondent and IARS Patron. Introduction to the subject by Maimuna Jawo, an antiFGM activist, campaigner for womens rights and expert by experience.

09:45 - 10:05

Jude Watson, Violence against Women and Girls Strategy Manager, Operations Directorate, Crown Prosecution
Service.

10:05 - 10:25

Adv. Karen McKenzie, Head of Human Rights, Human Rights Unit, Commonwealth Office

10:25 - 10:45

Professor Eleonore Kofman, Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University

10:45 - 11:00

Q&A

11:00 11:15

Break

11:15 - 12:20

Parallel Workshop Sessions

WK Group 1: Understanding and Addressing inequality, crime and victimisation through gender
Livasha Moodley, Knowledge and Perception of Illicit Drug Trafficking into and within Durban, KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal [Howard College], South Africa
Arti Lad, Gender Inequality in the Kanungu District, Uganda, IARS International Institute, UK
Dr Rumana Hashem, Recognising Intersectionality in Addressing Crime against and Victimization of Women:
Reading Stories from East and South London, Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of
East London, UK

12:20 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:30

Parallel Workshop Sessions

WK Group 3: Age, Gender and Violence
Meredith Dank, Surviving the Streets: Experiences of LGBTQ youth, YMSM and YWSW engaged in survival
sex, Urban Institute, USA
Andre Demushi, Addressing gender-based violence in teen relationships through youth-led research, The
IARS International Institute, UK
Hannah Burt, tbc, The IARS International Institute, UK

WK Group 2: Violence Against Women

John Robertson, Victim Collusion in the Context of a Domestically Abusive Relationship
Amy Passmore, Feminist Emotions in Emotional Labour: Who Cares about Domestic Violence?, UK
Rebecca Bunce, Why is Campaigning for an International Law a Community-based Solution to Gender-based
Violence?, Instabul Convention Coalition, UK
Rachel O Brien, Developing an EU Practitioners Guide for Restorative Justice in cases of Domestic Violence,
IARS International Institute, UK

WK Group 4: Female Offenders

Annetta Bennett, The Effects of Imprisonment on Female Offenders, Consultant - Specialist in Safeguarding
Women, Children and Young People, UK
Jackie Russell and Sue Payne, Mothers in Prison: The Re-Unite Approach, Womens Breakout and Anawim, UK
Sandra Barefoot, The Cycles of Fear and Silence that lead women to Become Offenders, The Forgiveness
Project, UK
14:30 -15:00

15:00 - 16:00

Coffee Break & Networking

WK Group 5: Migration, Asylum & Gender
Debora Singer, Women Seeking Asylum and the Protection Gap, Asylum Aid, UK
Mirela Sula, The Lived Experience of Migrant Women who are Survivors of Domestic Violence, Migrant
Woman, UK
Dr Natalia Paszkiewicz, Gender Sensitivity in the Asylum Aid, IARS International Institute, UK
WK Group 6: Women-led, best practice models
Gill Herd, A Partnership Approach to Delivering VAW Services: How to Evidence Impact, Solace Womens Aid,
UK
Nezahat Cihan, Title tbc, Iranian and Kurdish Womens Rights Organisation, UK
Kristy Tate, Sex Work and Identity, who am I now? Pioneering Interventions with Sex Worker in the UK,
Nelson Trust, UK

16:00 - 16:20

Professor Margaret Greenfields, Professor of Social Policy at Buckinghamshire New University and IARS
Trustee - Secondary Victimisation?: State and Institutional barriers to justice and equity for marginalised
women parents - the double-edged sword of social services interventions

16:20 - 17:00

Round Up & Next Steps by the Event Chair Dr. Theo Gavrielides
Final Remarks by Maimuna Jawo
Disclaimer: The Programme might be subject to change