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Susan Bazilli, Director of IWRP, is a feminist lawyer, researcher, educator, social entrepreneur and advocate who has worked globally on issues of women's rights and human rights for the past twenty-five years. A graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School, she lived and worked in South Africa from 1985-1991, and is the author of the groundbreaking text Putting Women on the Agenda: Women, Law and the Constitution in Southern Africa. From 1992 - 1997, she was the Legal Director of METRAC [www.metrac.org], The Metropolitan Committee on Violence Against Women in Toronto, Canada, and she was the founder of OWJNet, the Ontario Women's Justice Network [www.owjn.net]. In 1997 she became the first Executive Director of the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence. From 1998 to the present, she has been associated with the IWRP both at home in Canada and internationally. Some of Susan's international missions have included women's human rights training in Bosnia, Lithuania and East Africa for Women Law and Development International; bilateral missions in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan for the OSCE; ICT for development trainings in Croatia and Lithuania for USAID and CIDA; managing the gender program for the American Bar Association CEELI's program in Russia. From 2003 - 2004, she was the Legal Specialist responsible for the CEDPA [www.cedpa.org], seven country Southern African Women's Legal Rights program with offices in Swaziland and Madagascar. Susan makes regular visits to South Africa to work with the IWRP-SA. She was the Conference Chair for Putting Women on the Agenda 2, the second phase of the IWRP Women and Constitutions Project, held at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in November 2006. In 2007 she worked with IWRP partners in South Africa, the Philippines, Thailand, and Kenya, as well as local Victoria and Canadian partners. For more details, see her c.v.
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Susan Bazilli, Director
