A specialist in international humanitarian and human rights law gives a lecture for Kent’s Centre for Critical International Law on Tuesday 4 October.
Sareta Ashraph is currently chief analyst on the Commission of Inquiry on Syria and will deliver a lecture entitled Investigating Genocide: ISIS crimes against the Yazidis on the Canterbury campus in the Keynes Lecture Theatre 5 at 6pm. The lecture is free and open to all.
Hosted by the Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) at Kent Law School, the lecture will expand on the Commission’s recent report which found that ISIS was, and is, committing the crime of genocide.
Sareta Ashraph was responsible for the investigation and drafting of the report. Previously she served in the same role for the Commission of Inquiry on Libya, reporting on violations of international law. A member of the Garden Court Chambers in London, she has been a Legal Adviser to the Office of the Public Counsel for the Defence in the International Criminal Court and worked for the United Nations fact finding mission on the Gaza conflict.
The lecture is the first in a series by CeCIL for the coming year. Other topics include immigration, Palestine and the Colombian peace process.
