Events

Aisling Reidy of Human Rights Watch and Christine Ryan, S.J.D. candidate and Fulbright Fellow, Duke Law, will discuss the Irish abortion referendum and women's rights internationally. Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Senior Lecturing Fellow and Supervising Attorney of the Duke International Human Rights Clinic will moderate. This talk is part of the Human Rights in Practice series, which is organized by the Duke International Human Rights Clinic and the Center for International and Comparative Law. The event is one of many presented as part of "Duke at Home in the World," a program of the Duke University Office of Global Affairs, throughout November 2018. The talk is co-sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Human Rights Law Society, and the International Law Society. Lunch will be provided. For more contact Balfour Smith at bsmith@law.duke.edu.

Biographies

Aisling Reidy

Aisling Reidy has served as senior legal advisor at Human Rights Watch since 2006, focusing on Europe and Central Asia, the Americas, and several African states. She has taught international humanitarian law and human rights law at a university level.

Previously, Reidy, an Irish Barrister, was the director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. She also worked in The Hague as a trial lawyer in the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. During her career, Reidy has litigated multiple cases before the European Court of Human Rights and has appeared on behalf of Turkey’s Kurdish victims of rights violations. Immediately after the Kosovo War, she worked in Kosovo as senior human rights analyst for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, where amongst other responsibilities she worked with families of the “disappeared” as the head of a victim identification and recovery program. 

She is a fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, in the United Kingdom, and was a senior research fellow at University College London. She holds a law degree from the National University of Ireland and a master’s in international human rights law from University of Essex.

Christine Ryan

Christine A. Ryan is a final year doctoral student at Duke Law and the Duke Global Health Institute. Her research focuses on feminist and human rights-based approaches to abortion access. She has completed fieldwork in Ireland, Geneva, and Kenya to analyze the role of human rights in abortion politics. Prior to Duke, Christine worked as a human rights officer with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade where she focused on business and human rights, women's rights and the protection of civic space.