Join Wasserstein Fellow Lina Biscaia for a community discussion on her career in international organizations\, with a focus on the United Nations and the International Criminal Court. Over her 20+ year career\, Lina has gone from practicing law in a small village in Portugal to working in war crimes investigations and prosecutions in a vari ety of settings including the Middle East\, Southeast Asia\, and the former Yugoslavia. Lina will describe her career path\, covering both the opportu nities and challenges that one encounters when building a career in large i nternational organizations\, particularly in the international criminal law world.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP below. Open to the HLS community.
Lina started her international career in the field of human rights\, and quickly moved on to international criminal law and more specifically i nvestigations of war crimes and crimes against humanity. She has worked wit h the International Criminal Court\, the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia\, and the UN backed Special Panels for Serious C rimes in Timor-Leste. She has worked for a variety of organisations includi ng the United Nations\, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Eu rope (OSCE)\, and the Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPC W). In addition to posts in The Hague and Geneva\, she has also worked in T imor-Leste\, Bosnia\, Afghanistan\, Haiti\, and Iraq.
In the last dec ade\, Lina has specialised on sexual and gender-based violence in conflict. She’s currently the Head of the Gender and Children Unit of UNITAD where s he leads a team investigating sexual and gender-based crimes (SGBC)\, inclu ding against the Yazidis\, and crimes against children. Lina was the lead f or the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria\, coordinating investigations on a nd analyzing evidence of sexual and gender-based violence in the Syrian con flict and was the author of a highly regarded report on this. After leaving the Commission of Inquiry\, she served as a legal advisor on SGBC with the UN IIIM (Syria) before moving to working with OPCW on chemical weapons att acks. While SBGC has been a focus of her work\, she has worked on crimes ag ainst children\, both in the Syrian conflict and notably with regard to chi ld soldiers in the DRC leading to the Lubanga case at the ICC.
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