Feminism and Cultural Diversity

Conference in honour of Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling, member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1989 - 2008

The conference aims at a systematic analysis of both tensions and possible affinities between women’s rights and cultural diversity.

Programme

13:00 Welcome
 - Barbara Unmüßig, Member of Executive Board, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
 - Frauke Seidensticker, Member of Executive Board, German Institute for Human Rights

13:30 Culture and equality: Interference and infringement
 - Anne Phillips, Professor of Political and Gender Theory, The London School of Economics and Political Science

14:30 CEDAW Art. 5 and the concept of culture
 - Frances Raday, Professor of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

16:00 Panel discussion
Women’s rights in different cultural contexts:
Examples for challenges and solutions
- Jamila Bargach - Director, Fondation Si-Hmad Derhem, Casablanca
- Heiner Bielefeldt - Director, German Institute for Human Rights
- Sherri Helgason - Director, National Aboriginal Initiative, representative of the Canadian National Human Rights Commission
- Catherine Mumma - free consultant, former Commissioner of the Kenya National Human Rights Commission

18:00 Reception
in honour of Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling