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The ICC’s Lubanga Trial Nears Close: Will Child Soldiers Receive Justice?

By Bukeni Waruzi | August 30th, 2011

The Lubanga trial is coming to an end as the prosecutors, victims’ representatives and the defense counsel make their closing statements in the submission of evidence phase before the trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

I came to attend this crucial phase with hope and trust in the evidence materials submitted by the prosecution that would prove the commission of the crime, the personal criminal responsibility of the suspect, Mr. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, for enlisting, conscripting children 15 years old and using them to participate actively in hostilities in Ituri region, North Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2002-2003. This is a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the ICC. However, I was saddened, to see that the crime of sexual violence against girls wasn’t included amongst other charges against Mr. Lubanga.

Over the course of the presentations, I saw Mr. [...]

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Gender Justice Activists Integrate Video for Advocacy

By Chris Michael | April 5th, 2011

As I’m writing from a buzzing room in Nairobi, Kenya, there are five groups of women’s rights activists editing interviews that they’ve conducted as part of a ten-day video advocacy training. Through WITNESS’ new partnership with Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, this is the second comprehensive training that we’ve conducted (see a video report from our first training with a group from Northern Uganda) to support a push for an end to gender-based violence.

The 17 activists and their groups are campaigning to reform Sudan’s oppressive Rape law; addressing systematic rape as a weapon of war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic; calling for the government of Kyrgyzstan to implement existing laws to address bride kidnapping, which is happening at epidemic levels; and addressing gender based violence in Kawangware, a large settlement here in Nairobi. All of these situations are occurring with total impunity [...]

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Introducing our New Partner: Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice

By Rose Anderson | September 24th, 2010

In light of our announcement this week at the Clinton Global Initiative regarding our new campaign on gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict, we wanted to provide more information on our new partner and a few of our proposed activities.

After our initial research process led us to settle on gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict and political repression as one new programmatic focus for our network campaign model, we began to assess which organization would be the best fit for this collaborative initiative. Our criteria for selection included: potential impact of video in the organization’s campaign, agency of local voices within the campaign agenda, and value added of WITNESS’ involvement in the campaign.

From the very beginning of this process, one organization stood out clearly as a potential partner in this campaign: Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice. Women’s Initiatives is an international women’s human rights [...]

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What We're Reading + Watching, July 8-14, 2010

By Matisse Bustos Hawkes | July 16th, 2010

In this round-up we’re featuring more items to watch than read- a few examples of videos being used for change, satellite imagery being harnessed to identify tribal lands belonging to American Indians, some disturbing news from the International Criminal Court about the Thomas Lubanga trial, a link to video from our allies at Breakthrough and an article on gender justice.

From Twitter:

@WITNESSchris: I love this #video4change eg – video cartoon 4 advocacy re: toxic chemicals (+ a sweet website): http://bit.ly/a4jYA0 @WITNESSchris: Woohoo! GCF’s digital storytelling project – Bridge the Gulf Project – will launch soon!! http://ow.ly/29XHK (via @GulfCoastFund) @witnessorg: From @bbcnews: ICC’s first case – DR Congo’s Lubanga – is suspended http://ht.ly/2ac2J #humanrights @PriscilaNeri: watching video on: How American Indians Use Technology to Reinstate Tribal Lands– http://bit.ly/9yKqqL #video4change #datavisualization witnessryan Mallika Dutt of Breakthrough and WITNESS board member speaking about @Breakthrough videos on education in India. #IFPenv http://ht.ly/29Cvg

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First ICC trial begins in the Hague

By Bryan Nunez | January 29th, 2009

On Monday this week the historic and long-awaited first trial of the International Criminal Court began in the Hague. In the dock is Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a Congolese warlord accused of conscripting children under the age of 15 – some as young as seven – as soldiers in the civil war. [...]

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The ICC’s Lubanga Trial Nears Close: Will Child Soldiers Receive Justice?

Gender Justice Activists Integrate Video for Advocacy

Introducing our New Partner: Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice

What We're Reading + Watching, July 8-14, 2010

First ICC trial begins in the Hague

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