International Gender Justice Dialogue

Dates: 20-21 April 2010
Location: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

A convening

Description

Catalysed by the impending 10-year Review Conference on the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Nobel Women’s Initiative, in collaboration with the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, convened a meeting of 50 women’s rights experts, gender experts, and legal practitioners to look at how to strengthen accountability for gender-based crimes. A shared global agenda for advancing gender justice was released at the end of the three-day meeting.

In conflict zones and fragile states inhumane political and military tactics subject women to devastating forms of gender-based violence. All the while, women are unable to have a say in the decisions impacting their lives. They are grossly under represented in governments worldwide and are being left out of peace processes. Yet, despite all attempts to silence them, women around the world can be heard tirelessly speaking up for peace, justice and equality for themselves, their families and their communities.

Co-convenors

Nobel Women’s Initiative

Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice

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Media Release

International gathering of women calls for stronger ‘gender justice’

Session Videos

Welcome message from Brigid Inder, Executive Director of Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice

Day 1, Session 1: Peace Talks – Strategies and outcomes

Joanne Sandler, Deputy Executive Director, UNIFEM

Monica McWilliams, Chief Human Rights Commissioner, Northern Ireland

Esther Maria Gallego Zapata, National Coordinator Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres, Colombia