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“Rape as a Weapon of War: Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict”

Senate Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
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DATE: April 1, 2008
TIME: 10:00 AM
ROOM: Select Building-
OFFICIAL HEARING NOTICE / WITNESS LIST:

March 17, 2008

NOTICE OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law on "Rape as a Weapon of War: Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict" for Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building.

Chairman Durbin will preside.

By order of the Chairman

Witness List
Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law


On


"Rape as a Weapon of War: Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict"


Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226
10:00 a.m.

Lisa F. Jackson
Documentary Maker and Director of "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo"
New York, NY

Karin Wachter
Acting Gender-Based Violence Senior Technical Advisor
International Rescue Committee
New York, NY

Dr. Kelly Dawn Askin
Senior Legal Officer
Open Society Justice Initiative
New York, NY

Dr. Denis Mukwege
Director
Panzi General Referral Hospital
Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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