Susan Bazilli, Director IWRP, is a feminist lawyer, researcher, educator, and advocate who has worked globally on issues of women’s rights and human rights for the past 30 years. A graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B.) and the University of British Columbia (LL.M.) she currently living in Vancouver B.C. She is the author of the groundbreaking text Putting Women on the Agenda: Women, Law and the Constitution in Southern Africa. From 1992 – 1997, she was the Legal Director of METRAC [www.metrac.org], The Metropolitan Committee on Violence Against Women in Toronto, Canada, where she founded OWJNet, the Ontario Women’s Justice Network. In 1997, she was the start-up Executive Director of the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence.
From 1998 to the present, she has been associated with the IWRP in Canada and internationally. Some of Susan’s international missions have included women’s human rights training in Bosnia, Lithuania and East Africa for Women Law and Development International; bilateral missions in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan for the OSCE; ICT for development trainings in Croatia and Lithuania for USAID and CIDA; managing the gender program for the American Bar Association CEELI’s program in Russia. From 2003 – 2004, she was the Legal Specialist responsible for the CEDPA [www.cedpa.org], Southern African Women’s Legal Rights program with offices in Swaziland and Madagascar. She was the Conference Chair for Putting Feminism on the Agenda, held at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in November 2006. In 2007 she coordinated work with IWRP partners in South Africa, the Philippines, Thailand, Burma, and Kenya, as well as local Canadian partners. Since 2008 she has been managing an international transboundary waters project funded by the Global Environment Facility, and continuing the IWRP project work in Uganda and South Africa, as well as at the University of Victoria.
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