Please join Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and experts from El Salvador and Mexico for a presentation and discussion of KIND’s new report, “Childhood Cut Short: Sexual and Gender-based Violence Against Migrant and Refugee Children from Central America”, hosted by Hogan Lovells LLP in Washington, DC. Hogan Lovells generously provided assistance with the report and has shown a tremendous commitment to pro bono and protection by taking numerous KIND cases of children who suffered sexual and gender-based violence. The report outlines the forms of sexual and gender-based violence that children suffer in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, and in transit in Mexico, and the failure of their countries to protect them and to bring their persecutors to justice. The report also describes the limited access refugee and migrant children have to international protection and justice in Mexico. The event is targeted to the legal community, and will provide an opportunity for attorneys and other legal professionals to ask questions relevant to their cases, including about country conditions and asylum.

Speakers:

• Jorge Choy, Coordinator of Research and Documentation for Political Advocacy, Human Rights Center Fray Matías de Córdova
• Rachel Dotson, Gender and Migration Initiatives Director, KIND
• Silvia Juárez Barrios, Coordinator, Program for a Life Free of Violence for Women, Organization of Salvadoran Women for Peace
• Lisa Frydman, Vice President of Regional Policy and Initiatives, KIND

Registration:
To RSVP for this event, please click here. Please RSVP no later than Monday, June 5.