The impact of genocide on women and girls is catastrophic. Survivors of sexual violence endure unimaginable physical, mental health, and socio-economic challenges, and are often ostracized by their own communities because of their victimization. In the aftermath of genocide and conflicts generally, women-the pillars of their community, are often marginalized from decision-making and peace-building processes. Women and girls constitute a significant majority of displaced populations and are vulnerable to human-trafficking and other forms of gender-based violence.

This panel address the gendered aspects of genocide, the catalyzing impact of media, historic and legal frameworks for addressing mass atrocities, and the critical agency that we have to collaborate with victims/survivors and their progeny to establish mechanisms, procedures, and institutions that foster collective healing and resilience.

12:00pm EDT in Jamestown, Washington DC, and New York // 17:00GMT in London, Leicester, and Cambridge // 18:00 CEST in Nürnberg // 11:00am CDT in Chicago and Independence

About the Panelists:

• Fay Parris serves as an Administrative Law Judge for the NYC Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings – Special Education Hearing Division. She is a writer who has consulted on international human rights law and previously maintained an immigration law practice, representing clients in removal proceedings and physician-scientists petitioning for National Interest Waivers. In 2023, she presented on a panel sponsored by The Swiss Permanent Mission at the UN, the Canton of Geneva and the Geneva Human Rights Platform as an author and contributor to the collective publication “The Protection Roles of Human Rights NGOs,” published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. She also served as a Visiting Professional with the International Criminal Court (ICC), Office of the Prosecutor, where she advised the Court on modalities for prosecuting gender-based persecution which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2011); as Legal Advisor to the ICC Trust Fund for Victims for a June 2009 Board Meeting; and as a Supervising Attorney with the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights, advocating before the United States Immigration Court as Guardian Ad Litem for Unaccompanied Immigrant Children entering the United States border. Fay Co-Chairs the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, International Women’s Rights Committee; served as President of the Queens County Women’s Bar Association (2021-2022); is a Director on the Board of Advisors for The American University, School of International Service; and serves on the Committee on Character and Fitness, Appellate Division, for the Second, Tenth, Eleventh and Thirteenth Judicial Districts.
• Henriette Mutegwaraba was born in Butare Province, Rwanda. She lived through the harrowing days leading up to and the inconceivable aftermath of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi. She graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She serves as a board member for the OneTribe Organization. She is the Author of a memoir called, By Any Means Necessary Healing and Forgiveness After Genocide. Henriette enjoys speaking to colleges, church groups, and human rights organizations about the consequences of systematic discrimination. Furthermore, as the founder of The Million Lives Genocide relief fund, she is an ardent advocate for racial justice, PTSD awareness, and community healing.
• Dr. Yael Danieli, a clinical psychologist, pioneer traumatologist, victimologist, and psychohistorian, most recently founded the International Center for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma: www.icmglt.org in Special Consultative Status with the UN ECOSOC. Having developed the first program to help Nazi Holocaust survivors and their children in the 1970s, she has conducted extensive psychotherapeutic work with them on individual, family, group and community bases; studied post-war responses and attitudes toward them, and the impact these and the Holocaust had on their lives. Published widely, translated into numerous languages and awarded worldwide, on life-long and multigenerational post-trauma adaptation, optimal care and multidisciplinary training for working with this and other massively traumatized victim/survivor populations globally, and on reparative justice. The Danieli Inventory for Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma allows scientifically valid assessment and comparative international study. Emerita Distinguished Professor of International Psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, built the first PhD program in international psychology. She also cofounded and is (first woman) Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Dr. Danieli participated in creating all international instruments on behalf of victims’ rights and optimal care and served as consultant/expert to the ICTY, ICTR and the ICC on victim/survivors and staff care. Consultant to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Rwanda’s government on reparations for victims, her work included Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2008 she was appointed Advisor on Victims of Terrorism for the office of the UN Secretary-General.

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