{"id":8916,"date":"2025-04-24T19:21:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=8916"},"modified":"2025-04-24T19:21:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:21:29","slug":"creative-litigation-for-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/event\/creative-litigation-for-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Litigation for Women&#8217;s Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Viviana Waisman, President &amp; CEO of Channel grantee partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/wlw\/\">Women\u2019s Link Worldwide (WLW)<\/a>, spoke at a University of Washington School of Law hosted conversation on Oct, 2, 2019. The conversation focused on sharing how this organization, WLW, uses strategic litigation in innovative and creative ways to change laws and fight for the rights of women and girls in the courts in Latin America, East Africa and Europe.\u00a0 <span id=\"more-3534\"><\/span>Viviana founded WLW in 2001 in response to what she perceived as a glaring need to advance women\u2019s rights in national courts by applying international and regional human rights standards. An expert in women\u2019s rights and international human rights law, she holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, a Master\u2019s in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University and a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The event was sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/humanrights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UW Center for Human Rights<\/a>, African Studies Program, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, UW Sustainable International Development Program and Women\u2019s Link Worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-30-at-2.49.24-PM-231x300-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-30-at-2.49.24-PM-231x300-1.png 231w, https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-30-at-2.49.24-PM-231x300-1-58x75.png 58w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width:767px) 231px, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viviana Waisman, President &amp; CEO of Channel grantee partner, Women\u2019s Link Worldwide (WLW), spoke at a University of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8920,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[73],"tribe_events_cat":[207],"class_list":["post-8916","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wlw","tribe_events_cat-conversations","cat_conversations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8922,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8916\/revisions\/8922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}