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\n International Human Rights Organizations Challenge Idaho\u2019s Abortion Ban at US Supreme Court\n <\/h4>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \nMARCH 28, 2024 \u2014 The Global Justice Center, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Ipas \u2014 in partnership with Foley Hoag LLP \u2014 today filed an amicus brief in Idaho vs. United States, the United States Supreme Court case considering the enforcement of Idaho\u2019s near-total abortion ban.\n\n\n\nThe brief argues that Idaho\u2019s abortion law violates the human rights of pregnant Idahoans. Citing human rights treaties that the US has ratified, including those covering civil and political rights, freedom from torture, and racial discrimination, it describes how Idaho’s abortion law violates the United States’ legal obligations to provide safe and legal abortion services. In particular, the brief cites human rights obligations during emergencies governed by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.\n\n\n\n\u201cNothing less than the fundamental human rights of the people of Idaho are at stake in this case,\u201d said Grant Shubin, Senior Legal Advisor at the Global Justice Center. \u201cThis abortion ban is a blatant violation of the rights to life, health, non-discrimination, freedom from torture, and privacy. And the violations are far from theoretical \u2014 day after day, pregnant people in Idaho are facing life-threatening cruelties while their doctors operate under fear of prosecution.\u201d\n\n\n\nThe brief also argues that Idaho\u2019s abortion law will endanger the lives, health, and well-being of pregnant Idahoans \u2014 especially those from marginalized communities. It cites evidence from other US states and countries with similar abortion restrictions showing that such laws exacerbate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity, despite any narrow exception for life-saving care. \n\n\n\nRisks to the health of pregnant people in Idaho in emergency situations have already been documented. In one case, a physician described having to send a pregnant patient home while experiencing a miscarriage because, without absolute certainty regarding the pregnancy outcome, the physician feared that Idaho\u2019s abortion law prevented them from providing immediate care to manage the miscarriage in the emergency department.\n\n\n\nThe Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in Idaho vs. United States next month.\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n Read more <\/i>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n
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\n 300+ Organizations and Experts Urge Governments to Advance Draft Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity to Negotiations\n <\/h4>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \nMore than 300 civil society groups and individuals today issued a joint statement urging United Nations member states to declare support for moving the Draft Articles on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity into treaty negotiations. Human rights organizations based in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe \u2014 as well as leading international law and human rights experts \u2014 are among the signatories.\n\n\n\nBeginning Monday, April 1, the UN\u2019s Sixth Committee will resume its session to address crimes against humanity, where member states will have the opportunity to demonstrate support for treaty negotiations.\n\n\n\nAlthough crimes against humanity are among the most serious crimes in international law, there has yet to be a treaty regulating their prevention and punishment. The Draft Articles are the result of six years of work in the International Law Commission, an independent body of experts established by the UN General Assembly that is responsible for helping develop and codify international law.\n\n\n\nCivil society organizations and international law experts believe that the current draft is a strong starting point for negotiations. They have also recommended several areas where the Draft Articles should be improved. Ahead of a Sixth Committee debate on the treaty in October 2023, the Global Justice Center issued a series of legal briefs with recommendations to ensure the treaty is gender-competent and survivor-centric.\n\n\n\nA full list of signatories can be found here.\n\n\n\nElise Keppler, Executive Director at the Global Justice Center, issued the following statement:\n\n\n\n\u201cActivists from every corner of the globe have united to deliver the message that the world needs a treaty on crimes against humanity. Governments should step up and signal that they support moving to treaty negotiations. From Afghanistan to Myanmar, crimes against humanity are rampant, and more tools to combat these crimes are needed. A strong, gender-competent, and survivor-centric treaty is not only possible \u2014 it is necessary.\u201d\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n Read more <\/i>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n
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\n Global Justice Center Announces Elise Keppler as Executive Director\n <\/h4>\n <\/div>\n
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\n \n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK \u2014 The Global Justice Center announced today that Elise Keppler has been named Executive Director of the organization following a months-long search process. Keppler is an internationally recognized international justice expert and advocate who joins the Global Justice Center after two decades with Human Rights Watch. She takes over as executive director following the departure of the Global Justice Center\u2019s longtime leader, Akila Radhakrishnan.\n\n\n\n\u201cThe Global Justice Center is a feminist legal powerhouse that is much needed in the fight to dismantle systems of oppression and ensure respect for rights,\u201d said Keppler. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to have the opportunity to support the Global Justice Center\u2019s incredible team in building on successes to date and leading the organization in its next phase of groundbreaking legal advocacy.\u201d\n\n\n\nKeppler amassed extensive experience seeking justice for atrocity crimes \u2014 including sexual and gender-based violence \u2014 at Human Rights Watch, serving in various roles in the organization\u2019s International Justice Program. She led efforts to advance justice through national, hybrid, and international courts, including for crimes committed in South Sudan, Sudan, Guinea, Central African Republic, and Liberia.\n\n\n\n\u201cElise\u2019s trademark at Human Rights Watch was to build broad alliances among civil society groups to push back against governmental efforts to undermine international justice,\u201d said Ken Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch from 1993 to 2022 and visiting professor, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. \u201cAutocrats pretended that they stood up for the people in opposing justice efforts, but Elise showed that it was more a quest to avoid accountability. Elise brought strategic creativity to the task,  which I am sure will be an asset in her leadership at the Global Justice Center.\u201d\n\n\n\nDuring her tenure with the International Justice Program, Keppler led a multiyear campaign to secure the surrender of former Liberian president Charles Taylor to the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone. She also led the organization\u2019s effort to counter backlash against the International Criminal Court in Africa, which mobilized international policymakers and local civil society to champion the court while acknowledging needed improvements. Since 2020, Keppler also served half-time in Human Rights Watch\u2019s General Counsel Office, where she worked to assess and mitigate risk for the organization in carrying out its mandate.\n\n\n\n\u201cIn a global landscape where impunity is too often unchallenged, Elise\u2019s work to strengthen access to justice for survivors of atrocities, including sexual violence, is inspiring,\u201d said Gretchen Freeman Cappio, board chair of the Global Justice Center. \u201cWe are honored to welcome her to the Global Justice Center team and are certain her expertise and strategic vision will usher in a bold new era building on the many past successes of the organization.\u201d\n\n\n\nThe Global Justice Center works to ensure a gender-equal world where every person lives free from violence, has full bodily autonomy, and has the power to access justice to protect and promote their human rights. Since its founding in 2005, the Global Justice Center has carried out this mission through efforts to deliver international justice for gender-based crimes, to enshrine universal abortion access as a human right, and to embed feminist values in international institutions like the United Nations.\n\n\n\n\u201cThe work of the Global Justice Center is more vital than ever, and I\u2019m confident that Elise is the perfect person to lead it through the next stage of its trailblazing feminist journey,\u201d said Akila Radhakrishnan, former executive director of the Global Justice Center. \u201cWhether it’s through her bold campaigns to demand justice for atrocity crimes like gender-based violence or the lasting partnerships she built with grassroots activists, Elise has the experience and skills that the Global Justice Center \u2014 and the global human rights movement \u2014 needs right now.\u201d\n\n\n\nIn addition to receiving a bachelor\u2019s degree from Brown University and a law degree from the University of California Berkeley, Keppler was a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law in 2012. Her writing and commentary can be seen in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg, National Public Radio, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and more.\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n Read more <\/i>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n
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UN Member States are currently considering Draft Articles on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity. The Draft Articles offer an opportunity to fill a critical gap in international law on mass atrocities and advance gender justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This workshop provided members of civil society attending the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women with an overview of the Draft Articles and a forum to exchange views on them. It convened experts in international law, including some who have co-authored legal briefs on proposals to make the draft articles gender-competent, survivor-centric, and intersectional.<\/p>\n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\nOverview of the Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, relationship to other relevant conventions, and the need to center victims and survivors of crimes against humanity in the process\n\n\n\n\nLeila Sadat, Professor, Washington University School of Law\n\n\n\nSareta Ashraph, Consultant, Global Justice Center\n\n\n\nNaw Hser Hser, Advisory Board Member, Women\u2019s League of Burma\n\n\n\n\nOpportunities to advance gender justice in the Draft Articles\n\n\n\n\nAkila Radhakrishnan, Strategic Legal Advisor for Gender Justice, Atlantic Council Strategic Litigation Project\n\n\n\nDr. Melanie O\u2019Brien, Visiting Professor, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota\n\n\n\nJocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law\n\n\n\nErin Farrell Rosenberg, Senior Legal & Policy Advisor, Mukwege Foundation\n\n\n\nTess Graham, Legal Adviser, Global Justice Center\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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In collaboration with the Malala Fund and the Atlantic Council, IPI hosted a high-level panel discussion to mark International Women\u2019s Day on March 8th. The event addressed the harrowing reality of millions of women and girls living under systematic oppression at the hands of the Taliban and highlighted the ongoing efforts of Afghan women and the international, legal, and research communities to ensure justice for these abuses\u2014in particular, the momentum around efforts to codify the crime of gender apartheid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was co-sponsored by the Global Justice Center, Rawadari, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and the Permanent Missions of Mexico and Malta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening\/Closing Remarks:
Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein, President and Chief Executive Officer, International Peace Institute
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Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Laureate
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