Introducing: New Board Member
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Dr. Susan Bazilli
Susan Bazilli, Director of International Women’s Rights Project (IWRP), is a lawyer, researcher, educator, and advocate who has worked in Canada and globally on issues of women’s rights and human rights for the past 40 years. Her areas of advocacy and work focus on women’s and childrens rights, violence against women, women with disabilities and women’s legal rights from an international context. She has been affiliated with Accessibility for All since it’s founding having worked with the CEO Meenu Sikand for the past 3 decades.
From 1998 to the present, Ms. Bazilli has been associated with the IWRP in Canada and at the international level. From 1992 to 1997, she was the Legal Director of the Metropolitan Committee on Violence Against Women and Children (METRAC) in Toronto, Canada, where she founded the Ontario Women’s Justice Network (OWJNet). She was the first Executive Director of the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence (CAADV) in 1997-1998.Dr. Bazilli worked with Lawyers for Human Rights in South Africa from 1989-1991.
She currently holds an appointment with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and she resides in Vancouver, Canada.
Ms. Bazilli holds a B.A. from Queen’s University, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, and an LL.M. and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.
