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"Understanding the Effects of War on Women and the Role of International Humanitarian Law"
This seminar will discuss some of the negative effects of war on women and the necessity of International
Humanitarian Law to alleviate these effects, and will feature a series of first hand accounts from lawyers
and international relief experts describing their experiences in the field.
The Seminar panel:
Katie Zoglin is a graduate of Harvard Law School and is a Fulbright scholar. She has taught international
human rights at Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley. She spent a year working in Serbia and Macedonia
on gender discrimination with the American Bar Association's CEELI (Central European and Eurasian Law
Initiative) program. She has been an author and speaker on topics such as war crimes tribunals, rape in
war, and human rights abuses under military regimes. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of
Human Rights Watch's for Northern California.
Sean Kennedy received a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University. For 18 months in
2002/2003, he served as Program Officer for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Bukavu,
Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the midst of that country's civil war, he was responsible for
monitoring and evaluating several aid projects focusing on primary health care, water and sanitation, and
community development. He speaks French, Bambara, and Swahili.
Wynn Nyane is the current Director of Development for the Foundation for the People of Burma, a
contributing author to several Refugee International publications, and a frequent guest on Radio Free Asia.
Through a Center for Global Health award, Wynn Nyane witnessed first hand and interacted with many of the
tens of thousands of women and children displaced along the Burma-Thailand border.
Arzu Sandugi, an Employment Case Manager for the International Rescue Committee, works with newly
arrived refugees and asylees, helping them to find jobs and providing other resettlement services including
medical, educational, and housing referrals. Arzu holds a
PhD in Linguistics, and speaks several languages including Azeri, Russian, Turkish, English, Ukrainian,
Byelorussian, Turkmen, and Ghaghauz.