Penn Carey Law's Prof. Rangita de Silva de Alwis (Rangita de Silva) has developed the Addendum to General Recommendation No. 30, helping shape new global norms on peace and security. Read more below.

Metra Mehran Yalda Royan Mariam Safi .Rangita de Silva: The canon of international law is on trial…International law has largely ignored feminist analysis. A central question today is: can international law achieve change on women’s rights in a world where most of the relevant mechanisms are controlled by men?

At Michigan Law School with Karima Bennoune, Valerie Oosterveld, Baroness Helena Kennedy, SR Richard Bennet, Heather Barr, Dr Sima Samar, and others. 3 Nobel Prize winners including Malala joining online.

At Yale - Discussion on Peace & Security-Advance Addendum CEDAWGR 30 ohchr.org/sites/default/… ohchr.org/en/documents/t… ohchr.org/sites/default/… 10 years ago Radhika Coomaraswamy wrote the Sec. Gen. Global Study on SCR 1325 Thankful for her praise "landmark new global norms"

Today my discussions with Spain, Australia & Colombia on WPS. The Prevention Pillar in war & conflict including UNSCR 2467. Art 7 (4) Arms Trade Treaty Article requires that States Parties consider risk of serious acts of gender violence when conducting export risk assessments.

When I went to see #OneBattleAfterAnother for its amazing cast, I didn’t realize how much it centered intimate relationships between roles played by Leonardo DiCaprio, TEYANA M.J. TAYLOR & Chase Infiniti & featured many themes I explore in my memoir #TheMixedMarriageProject. (Link in bio)

Feminist Foreign Policy hosted by French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Here with Amb. Rome & the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Canada & Nicole Ameline. I address that France & Canada both call for aligning LAWS with Humanitarian Law & WPS. 20 hrs in Paris

Proust and "Remembrances of Things Past" 20 hours in Paris

Justice Abella will keynote the IBA Annual Conference in 2025. Looking forward to joining the IBAHRI Council on Nov. 2nd.

Honored to work with Cambridge University Press on authoring a seminal casebook on Global Gender Justice- traversing the terrain of gender equality - to emerging challenges in digital governance & climate governance - with a focus on centering case law from the Global South.

From the family archives: "The Sri Lanka Medical Association, "Wijerama House" was donated by Dr. E. M. Wijerama. An eminent physician, an exceptional clinician, a scholarly historian, a gifted teacher has been personified in renaming the McCarthy Road as the Wijerama Mawatha"

Marking the WPS - 25th anniversary today with what has been called the "landmark" advance addendum on WPS and the first launch of it with the Francophonie states. See framework and transcripts. law.upenn.edu/international/…

Honored to serve as vice chair and speak today at Baroness Helena Kennedy's program in Toronto on justice and accountability for women during the anniversary of UNSCR 1325.

Today in Toronto at the IBAHRI Council Meeting with Baroness Helena Kennedy KC introducing the International Bar Association Draft Resolution on Ending Child Marriage referencing the CEDAW &CRC -joining work of Nelson Mandela, Michele Obama on ending child marriage.

Speaking to the Trustees Council of Penn Women who are media leaders on online attacks on women in the media & on the UNGA Resolution condemning online attacks on women journalists & the issue of impunity, the UN Cybercrimes convention & non-consensual sharing of intimate images

Tonight looking forward to celebrating CEDAW GR 30 and its advance addendum on the WPS legal framework with UN Under Sec. General Pramila Patten at the Harvard Club led by the all-time global leader Soon Young. UN Charter - "To save succeeding generations from the scourge of war"

Time with cousins

Honored to present the Francophonie led launch of the Advance Addendum to GR 30 on Women, Peace and Security. The CEDAW website ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodi…) under Key documents, at the following link: youtu.be/3mmBdqXz6-g