{"id":1786,"date":"2022-06-17T11:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globaljusticecenter.net\/?page_id=1786"},"modified":"2023-04-07T05:34:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T05:34:07","slug":"our-founder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.globaljusticecenter.net\/about-gjc\/our-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Janet Benshoof<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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Founder of the Global Justice Center<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
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Janet Benshoof founded the\u00a0Global Justice Center in 2005 to fulfil her vision of a new kind of human rights organization where women\u2019s equality in power was a foundational principle for human rights. Ms. Benshoof was internationally recognized for her human rights and constitutional law expertise. She established landmark legal precedents in the U.S. Supreme Court and international forums. She spearheaded several successful legal efforts from the approval of emergency contraception for women by the FDA, to the application of international rape law to ensure the rights of women in the Iraq High Tribunal prosecutions of Saddam-era war crimes. She lectured and trained women leaders, judges, parliamentarians, and various UN bodies on implementing international human rights laws, such as CEDAW, and international humanitarian law, including women\u2019s rights to criminal accountability under Security Council Resolutions and by the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

Ms. Benshoof received numerous awards and honors including the National Law Journal as one of the \u201c100 Most Influential Lawyers in America,\u201d the prestigious MacArthur Foundation \u201cGenius Award\u201d in recognition of her legal work, the Gloria Steinem Women of Vision Award, the Edith Spivack Award for Outstanding New York Women Lawyers, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award.<\/p>\n

Before founding the Global Justice Center, Ms. Benshoof served as Director of the American Civil Liberties Reproductive Freedom Project where she spearheaded national litigation shaping Supreme Court law on gender equality, free speech, and reproductive choice. In 1992, Ms. Benshoof founded the first international human rights organization focused on women\u2019s rights to reproductive choice and equality, now the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), and served as its first President.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t