On February 20 2015, Justice Rapid Response Executive Director, Andras Vamos-Goldman, participated in a panel about the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war in ISIL-controlled areas and strategies to empower women. The Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Zainab Bangura, the Director of Research and Right to Development Division at OHCHR, Ms. Jane Connors and the MENA Agenda 1325 Project Manager at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Ms. Barbro Svedberg were the other panelists. The event was co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of Canada, Iraq, Sierra Leone and the UK.