The United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearance recently adopted a first draft of a comment on the impact of enforced disappearances on women and girls. CERL Affiliated Faculty Member Rangita de Silva de Alwis discusses the importance of gender- sensitive reparation policies that will help women and girls affected by enforced disappears regain their agency and dignity. These policies will help solidify the affected persons not just as passive victims but as active protagonists in the effort to eradicate this crime.

Rangita de Silva de Alwis is Senior Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Member-Elect to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). She is also a member of CERL’s Affiliated Faculty. Read her bio here.

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