The fight for women’s rights: learning from success – Baroness Helena Kennedy QC

The Oxford Martin School lecture for International Women’s Day with Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Principal of Mansfield College, and distinguished human-rights lawyer

The past century has seen huge progress in women’s rights, but inequality persists globally. Recent high-profile incidents of violence against women in India, continuing severe restrictions on the personal and working lives of women in Saudi Arabia,draconian punishments and the practice of genital mutilation demonstrate the extent to which women are still deemed second-class citizens in many countries and cultures.

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, who was in 1999 given the Times Newspaper’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her work for women, will look back at where campaigns have been successful, and explore what lessons from these can be applied in the fight to secure equal rights for all women, worldwide.