Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 12:30pm to Friday, September 18, 2009 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Solarium

 

 

 

Presents

 

Sidney Thompson, Special Court for Sierra Leone

 

“Charles Taylor on Trial”

 

Thursday September 17

12:30-2:00 pm

 

Solarium

 

A light lunch will be served.

 

Ms. Sidney Thompson, BA Hon. (Toronto), BCL/LLB (McGill), is an Associate Legal Officer in Trial Chamber II of the Special Court of Sierra Leone.  She assisted in drafting the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council Trial Judgment, the first judgement of an international tribunal to pronounce upon the crimes of forced marriage and the recruitment and use of child soldiers.  Presently, she works on the Charles Taylor trial.  President Charles Taylor was indicted in 2003 while sitting as head-of-state of Liberia for his alleged involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the war in Sierra Leone.

 

Prior to her work at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Sidney worked as a gender and development consultant in Toronto and with grassroots NGOs in Thailand and Tanzania.  She has also documented human rights abuses in prisons in Cambodia.  Sidney’s research interests include gender crimes, the intersection of business and human rights in Africa, and private military companies under humanitarian law.

 

Please RSVP by contacting Kara Norrington at kara.norrington@utoronto.ca