The Gender Report Card 2008 on the International Criminal Court (ICC) is now available online. The Gender Report Card analyses the institutional developments at the ICC over the past 12 months as well as its substantive work in investigations, outreach, …
On 19-20 January 2009, the Assembly of States Parties met in New York to elect six Judges to the bench of the International Criminal Court. In the fall of 2008 and January 2009, the Women’s Initiatives compiled a dossier on …
On 7 November 2008, the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice released an advocacy paper covering key issues and recommendations for States Parties and the International Criminal Court to further advance implementation of the Rome Statute and gender justice. The paper …
On 6-8 October 2008, the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice is hosting the Justice for Women Forum, an historic three-day meeting of 155 women’s rights and peace activists from Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Central African …
Iranian womens rights activists continue their world-wide campaign demanding an end to discriminatory laws against women in the Iranian law. Read the letterfrom the organizers and the Petition Statement. For more information check the Change for Equality website.
On January 2008, the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army/Movement (LRA/M) resumed the Peace Talks to end the 21 year conflict in Northern Uganda. At this session of the Talks, held in Juba Southern Sudan, women from Northern …
Three new judges were elected to the bench of the International Criminal Court during the Sixth Session of the Assembly of States Parties. The elections were held on 30 November and 3 December 2007 in New York. Read more about …
From 1-3 August 2007, the Ugandan Women’s Coalition for Peace and the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice held a meeting in Gulu with 40 women leaders from north and north eastern Uganda to analyse the Peace Talks and the Agreements …
On 6 March 2007, the Presidency of the ICC constituted Trial Chamber I in the Lubanga case as follows: Judge Elizabeth Odio Benito, Judge René Blattmann and Judge Adrian Fulford. The Presidency also decided to suspend the transmission of the …
On February 27th, the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC named two suspects, Ahmad Harun, former Minister of State for the Interior of the Government of Sudan, and Ali Kushayb, a Janjaweed leader, in his application to the Pre-Trial Chamber seeking …
