Welcome

The main focus of the Coalition’s work is :

• to promote the adequate prosecution of perpetrators of crimes of gender violence in transitional justice systems based in Africa, in order to create precedents that recognise violence against women in conflict situations
• help find ways to obtain justice for women survivors of sexual violence

Coalition News!

July 16, 2008

United Nations Security Council resolution on rape as a war tactic: an analysis by Rights & Democracy

Read the press release

April 9, 2008

Alert: Death Threats Made Against Congolese Women's Rights Activist

Read the press release

January 22, 2008

Launch of www.drcsexualviolence.org

The site was launched as part of a conference on the Great Lakes Region in Africa.

More information on the Conference on Rights & Democracy Website

Sign the petition on www.drcsexualviolence.org

October 30, 2007

Julienne Lusenge (SOFEPADI) is doing an interview with Pierre Maisonneuve (Radio-Canada)

Hear the interview on Radio-Canada's Website (French only)

October 25, 2007

Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations was pleased to learn of the arrest of Germain Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Read the Press Release

May 15, 2007

Groundbreaking Global Campaign for Women's and Girls' Right to a Remedy and Reparation

For more information

The Declaration is now available in 4 languages:

Français | English | Español | بالعربية

May 2007

Women's Right to Reparation : background paper for the Nairobi Meeting - 19 to 21 of May, 2007

For more information (PDF, 345K)

April 2007

Montreal : Rwanda Genocide Screening - North American Premiere

'Tuez les tous!' Rwanda : histoire d'un génocide 'sans importance'

On the occasion of the commemoration of the Tutsi genocide, Rights & Democracy, in collaboration with the Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations and Page-Rwanda is pleased to present a documentary by Raphaël Glucksmann, David Hazan and Pierre Mezerette.

This exceptional documentary, presented for the first time in North America in which investigation, historical context and interviews with key-actors of this tragedy is intertwined with heartrending testimonies of survivors.

Monday, 16 April 2007, 7 p.m.

Cinémathèque québécoise, salle Claude-Jutra

335, boul. De Maisonneuve Est
Métro Berri-UQAM

More information

August 2006
'Failed DRC Investigations by the ICC claim NGOs'

Press release by CCJT and WIGJ.

'Your Justice is too Slow - Will the ICTR fail Rwanda's Rape Victims?' by Binaifer Nowrojee
This paper offers an examination of international justice from the perspective of rape survivors from the Rwandan genocide, and exposes the squandered opportunities that have characterized sexual violence prosecutions over the past decade at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

(PDF 412 KB)
Source : UNRISD ( http://www.unrisd.org/ )

Publication
The Final Report of the First African Regional Consultation on Violence Against Women
(PDF 2367 KB)


Publication

Title: Supranational Criminal Prosecution of Sexual Violence: The ICC and the Practice of the ICTY and the ICTR
The latest publication from the School of Human Rights Research Series addresses sexual violence in transitional justice systems. Author makes extensive use of Coalition documentation.
Author: Anne-Marie L.M. de Brouwer
Publisher: Intersentia - ISBN 90-5095-533-9

November 2005
Betty Murungi, awarded the 2005 International Advocate for Peace Award for her work with the Coalition and Urgent Action Fund-Africa in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.

July 2005   
ICTR Decision on the Admissibility of the Expert Testimony of Dr. Binaifer Nowrojee in Case C. Bizimungu et al., July 8, 2005 (PDF 366 KB)

May 2005   
Coalition member Binaifer Nowrojee testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as an expert witness on sexual violence committed during the Rwandan genocide. Read the transcripts from the trial of the Prosecutor of the Tribunal v. Case C. Bizimungu et al. (ICTR-99-50-T).
Transcript May 16th (Word 358 KB)
Transcript May 17th (Word 345 KB)
Transcript May 18th (Word 149 KB)

March 2005
Letter to Chief Prosecutor Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, International Criminal Court, on Indictment Relating to Crimes of Sexual Violence Committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Annex: Public Records on sexual violence perpetrated in Ituri, Kivus, oriental Povince et in Maniema (DRC) Since the 1st of July 2002.