About
The GJC seeks to ensure that women actively make and enforce public policy and law, and are equal partners in all governmental and judicial bodies. Using existing human rights law, the GJC educates and trains emerging women leaders in transitional democracies and conflict areas to enforce their right to full participation. The GJC advises non-governmental organizations on legal strategies for changing national laws to reflect international standards. The GJC also seeks to use international law to render illegitimate those historical and cultural norms that prevent women from taking an active role in government, or violate women's human rights in any other way.
The Global Justice Center (GJC) decides on geographical areas of focus based on the following criteria:
- Transitioning government structures that afford particular opportunity for repositioning women's role in public life and decision-making. As countries are writing new constitutions or undergoing transitional justice, measures are in place for enforcing women's inclusion at all levels (such as is proscribed by SC Resolution 1325 and CEDAW).
- Requests for assistance. As women leaders and others request legal assistance in enforcing women's right to political inclusion, the Global Justice Center fields these requests and attempts to offer services to those whose needs we can bets address with the resources we have.
- Lack of other international assistance. The GJC looks to help groups who are not currently being assisted by other, larger human rights NGOs.