Exploring the Prevention of Conflict Related Sexual Violence in the Anthropocene: A Climate Justice Approach

This webinar will examine how climate change intensifies risks of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), particularly for women and girls facing forced displacement and extreme weather events. It will explore the fragmented global responses to these issues across climate, human rights, and humanitarian systems while proposing a feminist, climate justice-based approach to reform international frameworks for better prevention and protection.

Speaker:

Professor Susan Harris Rimmer is an expert in international human rights law, climate justice, and gender equality at Griffith Law School in Brisbane, Australia. She leads the Climate Justice theme at the Griffith Climate Action Beacon and founded the EveryGen coalition, advocating for intergenerational equity. Susan chaired the independent review of Queensland’s Human Rights Act (2019) in 2024 and has advised on major events such as the FIFA Women’s World Cup and Commonwealth Games. A Fulbright Scholar and World Economic Forum “Top Innovator,” she has published widely and is recognized as a leading global voice on gender and climate policy.

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This lecture is part of the Gender Lecture Series 2025 - The Building Blocks of Gender Studies: Practical Pathways to Equality, co-organised by Prof. Elisa Fornalé (World Trade Institute, University of Bern) and Dr Federica Cristani (Institute of International Relations Prague), HRJust Intersect Observatory Co-directors.

This lecture series builds on the Gender Lecture Series 2024 on The Building Blocks of Gender Studies:
Foundational Concepts to Navigate a Complex Field of Study with a special focus on practical
implications of gender studies in some of key areas like gender-based violence, intersectional
inequalities, climate justice and gender approach to climate studies, the involvement of civil society in
gender studies, as well as the implications of the landmark CEDAW General Recommendation No. 40.
In this sense, the two Gender Lecture Series complement each other, offering a broad set of tools for
navigating the complexity of gender studies.

The full programme and the recordings of the lectures are available at the HRJust Intersect Observatory website.