BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260314T155126EDT-13082CdjXH@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260314T195126Z DESCRIPTION:The woman known as Jane Doe is a renowned\nsexual assault activ ist\, writer and teacher. She is also the\nlitigant who made both feminist and legal history when she sued the\nToronto Police Force for negligence and gender discrimination – and\nwon.\nDuring her precedent-setting case\, she fought to hold police\nliable for failing to warn women of the serial rapist operating in\ntheir neighbourhood. She also linked this misconduct with wider\nCharter equality issues of systemic sexism and discrimination \nwithin the police force itself.\nThroughout her legal battle\, Jane Doe challenged myths and\nstereotypes about women and sexual assault. After le ading the\nneighbourhood postering campaign that led to the rapist's arres t\,\nshe fought to frame the trial of her rapist in her own terms.\nJane D oe was the first woman to win the right to sit in on the\npreliminary hear ing in her rapist's trial. Her 11-year civil trial\nmarked the first time the state was held liable for the way it\ninvestigates crime. Jane Doe has continued to speak and write about\nsocial and legal issues relating to v iolence against women in the\ncontext of equality and within a feminist\, anti-racist\nframework.\nCo-hosted by the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓÆµ Faculty of Law's Women's Caucus\, SACOMSS\nand the Annie MacDonald Langstaff Workshop Series (Margo t E.\nHalpenny Memorial Lecture).\n DTSTART:20081015T163000Z DTEND:20081015T180000Z LOCATION:Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel SUMMARY:The Politics of Rape: Jane Doe Speaks at ³ÉÈËVRÊÓÆµ URL:/channels/event/politics-rape-jane-doe-speaks-mcgi ll-102039 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR