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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 has lived in South Africa intermittently since 1985, where she is also the Director of IWRP-SA. She 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, where she founded OWJNet, the Ontario Women's Justice Network [www.owjn.net]. In 1997, on leave from METRAC, she was the start-upExecutive Director of the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence. From 1998 to the present, she has been associated with the IWRP 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. She was the Conference Chair for Putting Feminism on the Agenda, 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 coordinated work with IWRP partners in South Africa, the Philippines, Thailand, Burma, and Kenya, as well as local Canadian partners. For 2008, IWRP-SA launched the Grandmother Project in South Africa; partnered with learning networks on Transboundary Global Waters, and the Legal Empowerment of the Poor; and continued its work at the University of Victoria. For more details, see her c.v.
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Susan Bazilli, Director
