Professor Pruitt will appear at S.F. screening of Rwanda war crimes documentary

  • by Carla Meyer

Professor Lisa Pruitt will appear for a Q&A session at a Sept. 20 San Francisco screening of “The Uncondemned,” a documentary charting the first successful prosecution of rape as a war crime.

A memo Pruitt wrote while serving as a gender consultant to the U.N. International Tribunal for Rwanda played a key role in the case. Pruitt appears in the film, which follows the group of young international lawyers and activists who fought to establish rape as a war crime, and the Rwandan rape survivors who came forward to testify.

Presented by the International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law, the screening will take place at 6 p.m. on Sept. 20th at 425 Market St. (26th floor), San Francisco. Tickets are $20 online/$25 at the door.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King, Jr. professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity.  Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts.