"Tightening the Purse Strings: What Countering Terrorism Financing Costs Gender Equality and Security" represents the culmination of research, interviews, surveys, and statistical analysis carried out by the International Human Rights Clinic at Duke Law and the Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) to begin to fill the gap in understanding how responses to terrorism and violent extremism may in practice squeeze women's rights and their defenders between terror and counter-terror.

Introduction by DJCIL Editor-in-Chief Annie Showalter.

First session: “On the Existence of a Customary Rule Granting Functional Immunity to State Officials and its Exceptions: Back to Square One” by Micaela Frulli (University of Florence), with discussant Arthur Mark Weisburd (University of North Carolina School of Law).

Second session: “Diplomatic Immunity and Human Trafficking: A Long March to Justice” by Martina Vandenberg (The Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center), with discussant Sarah Adamczyk (Duke University School of Law).

Lenni Benson, Executive Director of the Safe Passage Project in New York delivers a talk titled "Unaccompanied Minors from Central America and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status." In 2014, nearly 70,000 children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador arrived in the United States, with many teenagers fleeing gang violence. The event focuses on the response of the U.S. immigration system to this crisis, and exposes students to human rights work and issues in a domestic context.