2008 Events
Save the Date: Crafting Human Security in an Insecure World
San Diego, September 24th-26th 2008
An international working conference to probe and address global acquiescence to impunity, gender violence and exclusion that continues to obstruct peacebuilding and deny human security.
Training in Colombia on International Law and Gender Justice
Bogotá and Cartagena, June 19th-20th and 26th-27th 2008
The Global Justice Center (SIGNAL) will be providing trainings on the ICC, SCR 1325, and the JPL in Bogotá and Cartagena to local NGOs, including LIMPAL (WILPF Colombia), international organizations such as UNIFEM and UNHCR, government officials, diplomats, and funders. In addition, we will meet with our partner Corporación Humanas, to assist with a SCR 1325 advocacy strategy and with developing a National Action Plan for Colombia.
New Laws, New Courts and New Opportunities: Advancing a Coordinated Legal Strategy for Women's Equality Rights
Tides Center, San Francisco. Tuesday, May 20th, 12 - 1pm
Globalization brings with it new opportunities to enforce international and constitutional equality guarantees for women both cross-nationally and in such global fora as the Security Council and International Criminal Courts. The historic opening of the International Criminal Court in the Hague in 2002 signals a paradigm shift in the global community's legal obligation to address those acts of genocide or other systematic grave crimes which are unaddressed or even perpetrated by states themselves. It is critical in this new stage of international law that the laws' enforcement and interpretation be shaped on gender equality as a basic premise...more.
GJC President Janet Benshoof Speaks at Harvard Law School's first public interest reunion
March 14th-15th 2008
During Harvard Law School's first public interest reunion held on March 14th and 15th, 2008, Janet Benshoof participated in a panel about social entrepreneurship. The panel explored the meaning of social entrepreneurship, as well as the role that it plays in advancing public interest law in particular, and social justice in general. Janet discussed her experiences and expertise as the founder of Center for Reproductive Rights and Global Justice Center.
52nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
February 25 - March 7, 2008
The 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York from 25 February to 7 March 2008. To see a list of events that the Global Justice Center is co-sponsoring, Click here.