Événement

Persecution of Sexual Minorities as Crimes Against Humanity

Jeudi, 10 octobre, 2019 13:00à14:30
Pavillon Chancellor-Day Salle de conférence Stephen Scott (OCDH 16), 3644, rue Peel, Montréal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA

Le Centre pour les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique et la Chaire Fortier en arbitrage et droit commercial internationals accueillent Valérie V. Suhr, Université de Hambourg, qui analysera si les pires violations des droits de la personne visant spécifiquement les LGBTI sont punissables en droit pénal international, tel que codifié dans le Statut de Rome de la Cour pénale internationale. La professeure Andrea Bjorklund agira à titre de modératrice.

Résumé

[En anglais seulement] Despite some great improvements in their legal as well as factual situation over the past decades, sexual minorities (LGBTI: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex) still face massive state and non-state violence in many places. The presentation analyses whether the worst human rights violations specifically directed at LGBTI are punishable under international criminal law, as codified in the Rome Statute (RS) of the International Criminal Court.

The focus lies on the question whether sexual and gender minorities—or at least parts of them—are covered by the crime of persecution, a crime against humanity codified in Article 7(1)(h) RS. Although sexual orientation and gender identity are not explicitly listed as prohibited grounds of persecution, “gender” is—along with “other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law.” Drawing on insights from gender studies on the social construction of gender, on the development of LGBTI human rights and on general rules of interpretation, the presentation will argue that sexual orientation and gender identify are included in the first, probably both grounds of persecution.

La conférencière

[En anglais seulement] Valérie V. Suhr is a PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg Law School and a research fellow to Prof. Nora Markard, MA, who is also her PhD supervisor. She studied law from 2009 until 2015 at the University of Hamburg Law School and in 2011 at Leiden Law School as an Erasmus exchange student. She is currently a Michigan Grotius Research Scholar to the University of Michigan Law School. Previously, she was a visiting scholar at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Leiden University), the Irish Centre for Human Rights (National University of Ireland, Galway) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (University of Cambridge, England). She is one of the editors of the international law blog voelkerrechtsblog.org. Her primary areas of research are international criminal law, human rights law and gender and law. Her research is supported by a fellowship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.

Cette activité est admissible pour 1,5 heures de formation continue obligatoire tel que déclaré par les membres du Barreau du Québec.

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