Government's ISIL Task Force appear before Lords Committee

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Witnesses

Tuesday 15 September in Committee Room 2, Palace of Westminster

At 2:45pm:

• Ms Widney Brown, Director of Programs, Physicians for Human Rights (via Video link)
• His Honour Judge Jonathan Carroll, civilian member of UK Team of Experts*
• Ms Rosy Cave, Head of Conflict and Stabilisation Team, Stabilisation Unit, DfID & Member of UK Team of Experts
• Mr Dan Chugg, Head of HMG ISIL Task Force & Head of Iraq Department, FCO
• Mr Michael Howells, member of HMG ISIL Task Force & Head of Near East Department, FCO
• Professor Lisa Davis, Human Rights Advocacy Director, MADRE & Clinical Professor of Law, International Women's Human Rights Clinic, City University of New York School of Law (via Video link)

* Please note that Judge Carroll appeared in his capacity as a civilian member of the UK Team of Experts, rather than as a serving judge. He did not appear in a representative capacity in respect of the judiciary.

Questions

Questions the Committee put to witnesses included:

• How can government, the international community and NGOs work together in conflict zones to prevent and respond to sexual violence?
• How far have the commitments and aspirations set out in the G8 Declaration and the Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict made a difference on the ground?
• What are the key challenges that human rights defenders and humanitarian workers face in their work to prevent and mitigate sexual violence in conflict?
• What strategies are there to counter the ideology of actors such as ISIL that use rape as an orchestrated instrument of terror?

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