Rapports

UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet today announced a new initiative to boost women's roles in conflict resolution. In an address at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, she described how UN Women will create an international roster of gender experts…

3 mars 11 - En Côte d'Ivoire, pays déchiré entre pro-Ouattara et pro-Gbagbo, le viol est utilisé comme arme de guerre. Gaëtan Mootoo et Salvatore Saguès, deux chercheurs d'Amnesty International en charge de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, ont enquêté sur…

In 2009 alone, it is estimated that at least 8,300 rapes were committed, of which have even included a month old baby boy and elderly women. Rome, Geneva, 28 February 2011 - Nine soldiers were sentenced to between 10 and…

WOM/1845 Commission on the Status of Women Fifty-fifth Session 8th Meeting (AM) UNICEF Says Girl Victims of Violence Still Treated as Criminals; Panellists Tell Harrowing Stories of Turning to Prostitution, Trading Sex for School Grades While more Governments were adopting laws and policies to…

Human Rights Council Sixteenth session Agenda items 2 and 10 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Technical assistance and capacity-building Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to…

February 22, 2011 | by Nicole Fritz The following article originally appeared in Business Day. The world of international criminal justice has offered lots of theatrics in recent weeks. Courtenay Griffiths, lead defense counsel for Charles Taylor, who is on trial in…

February 21, 2011 | by Richard Lee On February 21, a mobile gender justice court in the Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced Lt. Col. Mutuare Daniel Kibibi to 20 years in prison for ordering his troops to attack the…

February 20, 2011 | by Kelly Askin The Open Society Foundations have launched KatangaTrial.org, covering the trial of Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, Congolese militia leaders accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The trial of Germain Katanga and…

By the end of the sixth day of the landmark mass rape trial currently taking place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 47 women had told a closed session of the special military court their horrifying accounts of what…

By Alexandra Williams KIGALI, Rwanda, 15 February 2011 - For 17 years Mary was married to a man who emotionally and physically abused her. She first came to the Isange One Stop Centre in October of 2009, after having been…