Event

BBC Today/Chatham House Lecture

Women's Human Rights in the 21st Century

Wednesday 31 October 2007 11:30 to 12:30

Location

Chatham House, London

Participants

Cherie Booth, QC
Chair: Sarah Montague, Presenter, BBC Today

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Type: Members event

The promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women is one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the framework for development to which over 190 countries have signed up to. It is widely acknowledged that the empowerment of women is one of the most effective ways to foster growth and development in all economies and societies. However, even in 2007 at the MDG halfway point to the 2015 deadline and nearly sixty years after the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, why it is still necessary to debate women's human rights? Is there an inherent contradiction between culture and women's rights? Is there a role for financial empowerment in the promotion of gender equality?

Cherie Booth QC is a leading barrister with over 30 years' in public law, human rights, media and information law, employment law and European Community law. She was called to the bar in 1976, Queen's Counsel in 1995, and a Recorder in the County Court and Crown Court in 1999. She is a founder member of Matrix Chambers, which specialises in UK public and private law, the law of the European Union and European Convention on Human Rights, and public international law.

Chatham House has joined forces with Today, the BBC's flagship news programme, to host an international affairs lecture series. Both Chatham House and the BBC are world-renowned for impartiality and independence and for being leading patrons of free and open debate. This lecture series is designed to promote debate and discussion with leading figures on topical international issues. The inaugural lecture was in March 2006 when US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice delivered a speech on liberal democracy.

This event will be recorded for broadcast on BBC radio and TV.

More information about the BBC Today/Chatham House Lecture series.

E-tickets will be issued on 25 October and must be presented on arrival.

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