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 …
Defining the ‘Sexual’ in Sexual Violence – a guest post by Ruby Mae Axelson, Maria Carolina Espitia Becerra and Veena Suresh
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 …
WIGJ remarks at the ICC NGO roundtables on workplace misconduct and the critical challenge of chronic underreporting, from the perspective of complainants
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 …
Open Letter to the ICC Assembly of States Parties on the Prosecutor Election
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. …
How to break the ICC’s circular definition of sexual violence – a guest post by Wayne Jordash
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 …
Statement to COJUR on the ICC Prosecutor election & ending the culture of sexual harassment and bullying at the ICC
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 …
Civil society statement on ICC Prosecutor election
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 …
Joint civil society statement ahead of the IER final report
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 …
Joint NGOs letter on the MLA Draft Convention
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 …
Joint Civil Society Letter to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice joins the call to ensure Ukraine demonstrates its serious commitment to victims of international crimes and takes the necessary steps to fully align its domestic legislation with international criminal law and international humanitarian law, including …