2006 News Archive
PRESS RELEASE: Historic Gender Training for the Iraqi High Tribunal Judges and Women Leaders at the Dead Sea
December 2006
From November 13-15, 2006, the Global Justice Center (GJC), a new iNGO based in New York provided the first training on international law and gender for 20 Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) judges and 10 women leaders from Iraq...more
Feminist International Radio Endeavour Interview
Feminist International Radio Endeavour, October 2006
GJC President Janet Benshoof is being broadcasted by Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) in an interview on her work with UN Security Council Resolution 1325. FIRE is an internet radio station based in Ciudad Col?n, Costa Rica whose broadcasts are heard across the world through streaming audio...more
Iraqis Push to Prosecute Rape in War Crime Trials
Women's E-News, June 2006
A prominent women's group in Iraq, along with advocates of international law in the United States, are beginning to demand justice for thousands of Iraqi women who suffered under the regime of Saddam Hussein. They are working with and lobbying the Iraqi High Tribunal--the temporary court now trying the crimes of Hussein's Baathist regime--to prosecute and punish perpetrators of gender-based violence, including allegations of women being raped in prison and politically motivated public beheadings...more