This Friday, the Centre For Women’s Justice have their Northern launch, hosted by the Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University.
The event will be a day of discussion, ideas and debate, followed by a launch party bringing together feminist activists, survivors, and frontline practitioners with lawyers, academics and journalists to explore ways of using the law to challenge and redress violence against women and girls.
Experts appearing at the event include Harriet Wistrich, founding director, Centre for Women’s Justice and Marcia Willis-Stewart from Birnberg Peirce and Partners who was lead solicitor for seventy seven families at the recent Hillsborough Inquest.
The closing plenary will be given by Estelle du Boulay, Director of Rights of Women, Radio 4 producer Sally Chesworth and Sonia Birdee, a barrister and volunteer with Greater Manchester Law Centre.
Dr Kate Cook, Head of the Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research Centre, said: “This is an important Northern incarnation of a powerful new institution which is going to challenge the state when it is letting women down. It is going to use the law strategically to try to enforce women’s rights. The specialism is violence against women and girls which coincides with my research interests and is one of the strands of the Sylvia Pankhurst Research Centre.”
The event is supported by the Baring Foundation and the Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University. The evening launch event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
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The Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research centre was launched at Manchester Metropolitan University on International Women’s Day 2016.
The Centre provides a home for the “remarkable number” of researchers from across the University who are involved in gender research.
Sylvia, a daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, was the most imprisoned suffragette and also one of Manchester Met’s alumni, having been a prize-winning student in the Manchester School of Art at the beginning of the 20th Century.
