On 16 April 2021, No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) and Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice (WIGJ) responded to a call by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to provide written comments on its Draft Policy on Cultural …
On February 17th, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice joined over 70 Non-Governmental Organizations, Faith-Based Groups, and Academic Institutions to call for the Biden Administration to rescind executive order 13928, authorizing sanctions against ICC personnel. The executive order put in place …
On Friday 12 February 2021, following a nearly 18-month identification and selection process, the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute elected Mr Karim Khan as the next Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Mr Khan was …
On Thursday 4 February 2021, Dominic Ongwen was convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 61 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Prosecution had placed sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) at the heart of the case, …
On Friday, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice and ATLAS concluded the #WhyIDidntReport Twitter campaign, which highlighted chronic underreporting of workplace misconduct at international justice institutions. The campaign has shed light on the vast scale of underreporting, which has regrettably been …
Today, the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice and the ATLAS network launched an awareness-raising Twitter campaign to highlight the scale of workplace misconduct (including sexual harassment, bullying, abuse of authority, corruption, racism, ableism, homophobia, sexual assault, and other forms of …
While significant advances have been made in international criminal law (‘ICL’) towards accountability for sexual violence, if we are to do better at addressing this ongoing human rights crisis we must focus our attention on some of the most critical …
On 23 November 2020, WIGJ consultant Danya Chaikel made the following remarks during the online ICC NGO roundtables to ICC officials from all organs, and NGOs from the Coalition for the ICC: I would like to say a few words …
On 2 December 2020, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice joined seventeen other NGOs in calling on States Parties to the Rome Statute to ensure a fair, transparent, and merit-based election process of the next Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. …
It is nearly a year since The Hague Principles on Sexual Violence were published. They were designed to respond to a pressing issue in modern international criminal law – the systematic failure to listen and understand the views of survivors …
