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 …
The Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice made a statement on the ICC Prosecutor Election at the meeting of the European Union’s Council Working Group on Public International Law, focused on the International Criminal Court (COJUR-ICC), on 3 November 2020. Alix …
The shortlist of candidates for the ICC Prosecutor election may be extended. We join a a number of NGOs in raising concerns about the deviation this represents from the Terms of Reference for the election of the Prosecutor as adopted …
Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice joins ten NGOs in calling on the International Criminal Court and its states parties to maximize the unique opportunity provided by the final report of the Independent Expert Review. We recommend that in this process the …
On 24 September 2020, Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice joined nine other NGOs in welcoming a number of improvements made in the March 2020 version of the ‘Mutual Legal Assistance Initiative’ (MLA) Draft Convention, a new multilateral treaty for the …
