The Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice issues a statement welcoming the arrest of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo by Belgian authorities on 24 May 2008, in response to a warrant of arrest issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), said Executive Director …
Campaign to end discriminatory laws against women in Iran
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.
Women from the Greater North of Uganda join Peace Talks
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 elected at the 6th ASP of the Rome Statute
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 …
Democratic Republic of the Congo – Arrest of Germain Katanga
The Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice releases a statement on the arrest of Germain Katanga, former senior commander of the Force de Resistance Patriotique en Ituri (FRPI) militia in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). …
Views of women from North and North Eastern Uganda on the Peace Talks
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 …
Investigation of Rape and Sexual Violence in the Central African Republic
The Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice issues a statement welcoming the decision by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to formally open an investigation into crimes committed in the Central African Republic (CAR) during 2002 and 2003, said Executive …
News and updates on the developments in the DRC case
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 …
ICC Brings Evidence of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Darfur
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 …