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Human Rights Through The Rule of Law

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The Global Justice Center is strengthening enforcement of the Security Council's role as the ultimate enforcer of international humanitarian law and making Security Council Resolutions, such as those that address gender parity in peacekeeping and rape as a weapon of war, legally enforceable rights.

	Burma		NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security
	The Global Justice Center, with the Women's League of Burma and Burma Lawyers' Council, is seeking to end impunity for 50 years of heinous crimes committed by the military junta by advancing legal arguments for how the situation in Burma must be referred to the International Criminal Court.		The Global Justice Center is a member of a network of thirteen INGOs that advocates at the UN for the inclusion of a gender perspective in all aspects of peace and security processes.

The Global Justice Center is advancing global, equality-based rule of law as the counter force to existing conflict, lawlessness and injustice.

	Iraq		Sierra Leone
	The Global Justice Center serves as legal adviser to the Iraq High Tribunal and woman leaders on how to use international law to change cultural, ethnic and religious practices that discriminate against women.		The Global Justice Center is working with judges and civil society groups to end the ongoing impunity for sexual and gender-based violence in Sierra Leone that is a product of the decade long civil war.

The Global Justice Center is forging new and creative avenues to make the United States an active promoter of international equality laws domestically and globally. The GJC focuses on changing U.S. laws and policies, like the Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, which define gender equality rights very narrowly, including the exclusion of abortion laws from equality scrutiny.

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