On 20 January 2020, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice joined 12 other NGOs in addressing the Core Group and Co-Sponsoring States of the initiative for the creation of a new multilateral treaty for the domestic prosecution of the most serious …
Sexual violence has been recognised as a core component of the conflicts in the Central African Republic and, along with pillaging and murder, was utilised to forcefully move populations. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for …
Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice is honoured to announce that its Executive Director Melinda Reed has been appointed as the Acting Convenor of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court for the 18th Assembly of States Parties session. Ms. Reed will act as …
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is a powerful reminder of the need to eradicate all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and holding those who perpetrate such crimes accountable. Violence against women is recognised as …
(The Hague) – The Gambia’s case against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating the Genocide Convention, filed on November 11, 2019, will bring the first judicial scrutiny of Myanmar’s campaign of murder, rape, arson, and other …
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 …
