LAW AND GENDER VIOLENCE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Introductions - Professor Barbara Wejnert

Speakers:

Laws Relating to Domestic Violence in Sri Lanka: Its triumph in Stopping Gender Based Violence

Professor Muthukuda Jeeva Shirajanie Niriella, Senior Lecturer / Senior Attorney-at-Law (LLB Hons, Attorney–at –Law, M.Phil), Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Gender Based Violence in Sri Lanka: Law in Practice

Professor Sisira Shantha Niriella, Senior Lawyer (Attorney at Law) and Acting Magistrate at Negombo Magistrate Court, Sri Lanka

Violence against Women: Emerging Spaces for Socio-Political Movements in Modern India

Professor Barik, Bishnu Charan, Vice-Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Director School of Social Sciences,

SRTM University, Nanded, Maharasthra State, India

Gender Equality and Freedom as ‘One Law for Souls’

Professor Maria Anita Stefanelli, Department of Literature, Università Roma Tre, Italy

Discussion – Professor Errol Meidinger, Director of Baldy Center