Please join us for this special CSW67 Parallel Event in Honor of International Women’s Day 2023
sponsored by the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, the Medical Women's International Association and the United Nations Association of New York
Dr. Catherine Cerulli, JD, PhD
Director
Susan B. Anthony Center, University of Rochester
Allison A. Dunlop, Esq.
Senior Attorney
Brooklyn Legal Services, Inc.
Dr. Mariam Jashi
Secretary General, Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA)
Former Member of Parliament, Georgia
Dr. Eleanor Ann Nwadinobi, MBBS, EMA, FAAC
President
Medical Women’s International Association
Dr. Murali Shanmugavelan
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute
Moderator
Fay Yvette Parris, Esq.
Co-Chair, Women's Bar Association of the State of New York,
International Women's Rights Committee
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Friday | 10 March 2023 | 12:30 to 2 p.m. EST
Register for this Zoom event here
To celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day, and the 67th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), we are offering as a special CSW67 Parallel Event, a multidisciplinary panel addressing issues involving technology and its role in advancing the status of women and girls.
Today, technology is an essential tool in providing women and girls access to health care, justice, education and other opportunities that will result in a better quality of life and the enjoyment of rights in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Women's access to technology however, is not guaranteed outright and the barriers to such access which remain must be identified and eliminated.
Some of the topics this panel will present include:
multidisciplinary perspectives on the role that technology plays in advancing the status of women and girls;
a multi-sectorial analysis of "access to technology gaps";
information pertaining to viable partnerships and collaborations that facilitate women's access to technology
Please join us for this timely exchange, which will be presented on Zoom, with our special guests: Dr. Catherine Cerulli, a New York-based university professor and Director of the Susan B. Anthony Center, University of Rochester; Allison A. Dunlop, Senior Attorney at Brooklyn Legal Services, Inc.; Dr. Mariam Jashi, Secretary General, Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) and Former Member of Parliament, Georgia; Dr. Eleanor Ann Nwadinobi, President of the Medical Women’s International Association; and Dr. Murali Shanmugavelan, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Oxford’s Internet Institute. The panel will be moderated by Fay Yvette Parris, Co-Chair, Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, International Women's Rights Committee.
Panelists
Dr. Catherine Cerulli
Dr. Catherine Cerulli is a New York-based university professor and researcher who has spent four decades working directly with victims of interpersonal violence. She is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and director of its Laboratory of Interpersonal Violence and Victimization. Dr. Catherine Cerulli has taught at URMC since 2000 and has served on several interpersonal violence and mental health committees. She also co-founded an innovative medical-law program that combines legal, health, and advocacy services for victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). She also directs the Susan B. Anthony Center, working to translate science into practice.
Following the principles of community-based participatory research, Dr. Cerulli has led several collaborative studies involving IPV survivors. She has received millions of dollars in grant funding to perform critical research and investigations and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. Her work has appeared in publications such as Journal of Clinical Psychology, Family Court Review, Violence Against Women Journal, and Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness Journal.
While she has conducted most of her research in the U.S., Dr. Cerulli has also worked in Russia, China, India, and Mongolia. She participated in grants from the World Health Organization and National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center to conduct this important work. She was also selected as a Fulbright Specialist wherein she worked in Delhi, India teaching research methods to law students. She has also been a visiting lecturer to the Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention and spoke on a Caribbean government leaders panel titled "Coordinating Governmental Action to Prevent Intra-Family Violence."
Dr. Catherine Cerulli has taught at URMC since 2000, prior to which she was a legislative analyst with the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence during graduate school. Complementing her experience working with victims of interpersonal violence and other marginalized peoples, Dr. Cerulli holds a PhD and Master of Arts from the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany School of Criminal Justice. She also holds a Juris Doctor from SUNY at Buffalo School of Law and has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1993.
Allison A. Dunlop, Esq.
A senior attorney in the Family Law/Domestic Violence Unit at Brooklyn Legal Services, Inc., Allison A. Dunlop has represented survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault for over two decades. She practices law through a trauma-informed lens and has litigated extensively in the Family, Supreme, and Integrated Domestic Violence (IDV) Courts in New York. She represents survivors in divorces, custody & visitation, support, and family offense proceedings for civil orders of protection as well as gender-based, humanitarian, applications for immigration relief like VAWA Self-petitions, Battered Spouse Waivers, and U visas. Ms. Dunlop speaks widely on domestic violence issues, especially in Spanish-Speaking and immigrant communities, and has trained attorneys, first responders, rape counselors, dv advocates, etc.
She obtained her Juris Doctorate from SUNY Buffalo School of Law, where she was an Arthur Schomburg Fellow and specialized in International Law and Human Rights. She has a B.A. from New York University. She is a member of the Queens County Women’s Bar Association, New York State Women’s Bar Association, Dominican Bar Association, Lawyers Committee against Domestic Violence.
A first-generation Dominican American, Ms. Dunlop is extremely proud of her cultural lineage and her two teenage children.
Dr. Mariam Jashi
Dr. Mariam Jashi is a senior-level policymaker in Global Health, Sustainable Development and Innovative Financing bringing experience from 26 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and Middle East.
She is the Secretary General of Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA), Global Board Member of UNITE Parliamentarians Network for Global Health, and Advisory Board Chair of Tbilisi Medical Academy.
Dr. Jashi is a former Member of Parliament of Georgia, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee, Deputy Health Minister, Member of Parliamentary Council for Gender Equality and President of the Leading Group Secretariat on Innovative Financing for Development.
Her earlier experience includes 12 years of humanitarian and development work with UNICEF, UNAIDS, other UN agencies, GAVI and the World Bank. Mariam Jashi is the recipient of the WHO Award for contribution to Polio Eradication in Europe.
Dr. Jashi is the Mason Fellow of Harvard Kennedy School, holds Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard University, Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from AIETI Medical School and Master of Public Health (MPA) from Tbilisi State University.
Dr. Eleanor Ann Nwadinobi
Dr. Eleanor Ann Nwadinobi is President of the Medical Women’s International Association. She is also Co-founder of the Every Woman Treaty, a coalition advocating for a global treaty to end all forms of violence against women.
An independent gender, health, women’s rights, and women, peace, and security expert, her career has spanned working as an anaesthetist in the UK, with ECOWAS on child trafficking, United Nations on girls’ education , HIV/AIDS and as lead researcher on gender-based violence for the World Bank. She worked with the African Union as team leader for the experts who drafted the stabilisation strategy for the four countries affected by Boko Haram.
As President of the Widows Development Organisation, Eleanor participated in bringing about State and National laws outlawing harmful widowhood practices in Nigeria.
Eleanor has presented numerous papers, has several publications and Honoured with several awards.
Her personal profile is featured in Friedrich Ebert Stiftung publication, “The hands that build Nigeria: Nigerian women role models” and The Encyclopedia of WHO is WHO in the Medical Profession in Nigeria 1950-2021.
Dr. Murali Shanmugavelan
Dr. Murali Shanmugavelan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute. His academic research is concerned with the disavowal of protected categories, such as caste, race, gender and sexual orientation in media and communication studies and digital cultures. His research at Fairwork builds on this academic training and activism to scrutinize and mitigate re-manifestations of digital inequalities in the platform economies.
As a Faculty Fellow – Race and Technology at Data & Society, his work focused on reimagining communication and technology studies from (anti)caste perspectives. He has recently published a module on Critical and Caste and Technology Studies. As part of his Fellowship at Data and Society, Murali will publish an edited anthology of exploitative practices of minoritized platform workers in Bangladesh, India and Brazil. Murali has written research and policy briefs that include but are not limited to pro poor access to communication, internet governance, access to knowledge, caste and development and most recently caste-hate speech and digital media politics. Murali has been an active member of anti-caste stakeholder’s forum in the UK that seeks to criminalize caste-practices in the UK.
Dr. Murali’s research interests include Digital ethnography, Internet inequalities, Manifestations of Caste and Race on the Internet, Caste, India, South Asia, and Globalization of caste.
Areas of interest for doctoral supervision include Internet and social inequalities; labor and social hierarchies (caste); Caste and technology; Gig economy in non-western societies; Caste, race, gender and internet technologies; and Machine learning biases social hierarchies.
Moderator
Fay Yvette Parris, Esq.
Fay Yvette Parris, is an international law consultant, immigration law practitioner, and writer with extensive experience in humanitarian and international human rights law. Recently, she also provided extensive service to McGuire Woods, LLP. as part of a financial crimes investigations team. In her private practice she prepares National Interest Waiver petitions for physicians, medical researchers and scholars with exemplary portfolios, and has successfully represented individuals in removal proceedings, including those seeking asylum or withholding of removal under the UN Convention Against Torture.
She served as a Visiting Professional with the International Criminal Court (ICC), Office of the Prosecutor, where she advised the Court on modalities for prosecuting gender-based persecution which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2011); as Advisor to the ICC Trust Fund for Victims for a June 2009 Board Meeting, and as a Supervising Attorney with the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights. From June 2021-June 2022 she served as President of the Queens County Women's Bar Association, and she is currently a member of the American University School of International Service Board of Advisors, an Ex-Officio Director of the Global NGO Executive Committee and serving in her nineteenth year as Co-Chair of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York (WBASNY) International Women's Rights Committee. Fay was the 2019 recipient of the WBASNY Marilyn R. Menge Award for outstanding work on behalf of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York.
Fay and Michael A. Eastridge, Esq. recently co-founded Global Justice Advocates, PLLC through which they collaborate with other stakeholders to incorporate international human rights principles as practice within public and private spaces.
Fay received a Master of Arts (MA) in Law and International Affairs from The American University School of International Service; a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the American University Washington College of Law and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in International Affairs with a Minor in Criminal Justice from The American University, School of International Service.