The International Issues Discussion (IID) series at Toronto Metropolitan University will present its fourth talk of the Winter 2026 series, “Beyond Formal Equality: Feminism, Gender Violence, and the Institutional Responsibilities of Democratic Societies.”

Our guest will be Claudia Aguilar Barroso: currently Legal Advisor at FGA Ventures Inc. (Vancouver). In Mexico, she founded Aguilar Barroso Abogados, a firm specializing in constitutional litigation, regulatory law, and human rights. She is Professor of Constitutional Procedural Law and holds postgraduate studies in Human Rights, Constitutional Procedural Law, and Gender Studies. Her academic and professional work focuses on judicial independence, democratic institutions, substantive equality, and the structural dimensions of gender-based violence within legal systems. She regularly lectures and writes on constitutional reform, the rule of law, and gender justice in comparative perspective.

Her talk will be held in-person on Wednesday, March 11^th  between 6:30 and 8:30 pm inENG 103 (the Vari Engineering Building, 245 Church Street, Toronto). Attendance is free and everyone is welcome.  

Founded in 2005, the IID is a non-partisan, student-led forum designed to engage all members of the TMU community on major events and issues in contemporary global affairs through reasoned, objective, and scholarly discourse. For further details about the IID and our series please see http://iid.kislenko.com  or contact the IID student leaders at iidseries@gmail.com