women form war court

[niyad]

On May 7, the Women's Court on war crimes against women during the war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s formally started in Sarajevo, Bosnia, according to a press release distributed by the WUNRN listserve.

Women have come together from all the corners of the former nation to demand justice for the crimes committed against them during the wars and the enduring inequalities and suffering that followed.

The composition of the organizational committee includes women across the national divides that came with the partition of the former Yugoslavia: from Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mothers of the Enclaves of Srebrenica and Zena, Women's Forum, Foundation CURE; from Croatia: Centre for Women's Studies, Centre for Women War Victims - ROSA; from Kosovo: Kosovo Women's Network; from Macedonia: National Council for Gender Equality; from Montenegro: Anima; from Slovenia: Women's Lobby Slovenia; from Serbia: Women's Studies, Women in Black.

The tribunal will not pronounce verdicts; instead it will name the crimes and the perpetrators, it will denounce the links between the different forms of violence that women suffer till today in the former Yugoslavia, as a consequence of the wars, it will demand justice and, relying on the power of internationalist women's solidarity, commits to monitoring the responses from the concerned authorities.

http://womensenews.org/story/cheers-and-jeers/150508/women-form-war-crime-court-paraguay-nixes-abortion

[Novara]

1. Good for them!

[niyad]

2. I would love to see the same thing here.

[Novara]

3. Absolutely.

[brer cat]

4. Good for them!

I hope they can apply enough pressure to get justice.