Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice welcomes the sentencing judgement in the International Criminal Court (ICC) case against Bosco Ntaganda. In explaining how they arrived at the sentence of 30 years imprisonment – the maximum sentence imposed to date at the ICC …
On 23 September 2019, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice joined other members of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) in sending a letter to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, asking for the immediate ratification of the Rome …
The 2020 International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Election is crucial to the ICC and to the promotion of global conformity with the rule of law and addressing impunity. Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice calls on all stakeholders in the global …
On 28 June 2019, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice together with the Global Justice Center, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and Naripokkho have issued a joint statement on the assignment of the situation in Myanmar and Bangladesh …
Today, on International Justice Day, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice believes it is important to reflect on the current issues before the International Criminal Court, including progress on gender justice issues. More than twenty years after the adoption of the …
On Monday 8 July 2019, Bosco Ntaganda was convicted on 18 charges of war crime and crimes against humanity. WIGJ welcomes this decision as an important step in the development of international criminal law jurisprudence on sexual and gender-based violence. …
On 23 April 2019, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 2467 (2019) on Women and Peace and Security. Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice welcomes the efforts of Germany during their UNSC Presidency to sponsor the first resolution addressing …
On 7 March 2019, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice together with the Coalition for the ICC, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights, No Peace Without Justice, Open Society Justice Initiative and the World Federalist Movement – Institute …
The Prosecutor v. Alfred Yekatom Today, Alfred Yekatom (Yekatom) will appear for the first time before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC). On 17 November 2018, Yekatom was surrendered to the ICC to face trial for crimes …
On 8 June 2018, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC), by a 3-2 majority, acquitted Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo (Bemba). The Appeal Judgment overturned his conviction handed down unanimously in March 2016 for two counts of crimes against …
