{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F59927fd2-8d18-4da0-8f4c-b4410917a1ab","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"International Women\u2019s Day Series \u2013 Gemma McKeown","description":"In the second of three episodes developed in partnership with the QUB School of Law Athena Swan Committee for International Women's Day 2021, Dr Eithne Dowds interviews Gemma McKeown about her career and work as a solicitor with the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ). CAJ is an independent human rights NGO committed to promoting justice and protecting rights and in this episode, Eithne and Gemma discuss Gemma's experience of working on issues of human rights in Northern Ireland, the intersection of gender and human rights in NI, and Gemma's work at CAJ. Gemma obtained her LLB in Trinity College Dublin and LLM in Human Rights in Queen\u2019s University Belfast and after qualifying from the Institute of Professional Legal Studies, QUB, she worked in private practice and at the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. Her work at CAJ engages a wide range of human rights issues both at a policy level and through strategic litigation. For more information on CAJ's work https://caj.org.uk/ (see here). To learn more about legacy issues in Northern Ireland, please see https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2569039 (here) and https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/prosecutions-imprisonment-and-the-stormont-house-agreement-a-crit (here). You can access the Gender Principles Gemma discussed https://www.ulster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/74070/Legacy-Gender-Integration-Group_Workshops-Report_Developing-Gender-Principles-for-Dealing-with-the-Legacy-of-the-Past_18-11-2015.pdf (here), and for more on the Anti-Poverty Strategy, https://www.equalitycoalition.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/FINALCONFERENCEREPORT-APN-March-2017.pdf (please see here).","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/966fa63d-9864-4d67-84c4-38553cac6705/2021-03-05-iwd-gemma-mckeown-caj.jpg"}