On 28 March 2012, the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice filed a request for leave to participate in the reparations proceedings in the case The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. The request was filed in response to the Trial Chamber’s “Scheduling order concerning timetable for sentencing and reparations” of 14 March 2012.

The Women’s Initiatives requested leave to address two areas specified by the Chamber, in particular “i) whether reparations should be awarded on a collective or individual basis;” and “ii) depending on whether there should be individual or collective reparations (or both), to whom are they to be directed; how harm is to be assessed; and the criteria to be applied to the awards.” In particular, the Women’s Initiatives seeks to assist the Court by providing observations on the gender dimensions of these specific factors including modalities for determining reparation programmes which are inclusive of girls and women.

Read the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice request for leave to participate in reparations proceedings

Read the previous filings submitted by the Women’s Initiatives to the ICC