Events

GJC legal advisor Tess Graham joined other experts for a REDRESS event on the crimes against humanity treaty effort.

This online discussion explored the future UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, recent developments in the negotiations, and the implications for international justice and accountability efforts worldwide.

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We joined UN Women, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the Permanent Mission of Iceland To the UN to launch a new report on the intersection of reproductive violence and the Women, Peace, and Security agenda.

Developed with our partner UN Women, the report identifies areas where greater recognition of reproductive violence would advance and support the Women, Peace, and Security agenda’s goals of addressing, preventing, and remedying gendered harms of conflict and expanding women’s participation in conflict prevention, peacemaking, and peacebuilding.

In connection with Women Peace and Security week, this side event will highlight the experiences and priorities women human rights defenders working to address conflict-related sexual violence and potential avenues for gender-sensitive justice and accountability, including international justice mechanisms and universal jurisdictions efforts.

The event will bring together Myanmar women human rights defenders, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Kelley Currie and the Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar Nicholas Koumjian to discuss continuing human rights violations, in particular conflict-related sexual violence.

Speakers include:
Shelli Yoder, State Senator for District 40
Jaime Gher, Senior Legal Advisor, Global Justice Center
Jody Madeira, Monroe County Commissioner & Law Professor
Jessica Schaffer, Great Lakes Regional Director, NCJW
Laura Lasuertmer, Writer & Advocate
Amalia Shifriss, Hoosier Jews for Choice Co-chair

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A once-in-a-generation Crimes Against Humanity convention is on the table. Join us for a 90-minute participatory session where Women Deliver delegates will co-author an intersectional feminist agenda for the treaty negotiations — moving the process from technical negotiations into the hands of survivors, Indigenous peoples, gender-diverse communities, and feminist advocates.

Launching the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar’s conference room paper outlining pathways to accountability for grave human rights violations in Myanmar.

This town hall event features feminist experts, activists, and movements in the upcoming effort to ensure the crimes against humanity treaty is gender-sensitive, intersectional, and survivor-centered.