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Prosecution of Women's Rights Defenders Continues in Iran
Women's rights defenders are experiencing a new phase of government oppression ranging from interrogations to prison sentences…
Prosecution of Women’s Rights Defenders Continues in Iran

Comfort Women Decry Prime Minister’s Comments
The Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice joins surviving “comfort women” in denouncing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent comments claiming over 200,000 women sexually enslaved by the Japanese Imperial Army from 1932 to 1945 had not been coerced into sexual slavery by the former Japanese Army.
Comfort Women Decry Prime Minister’s Comments.pdf


Democratic Republic of the Congo
Background on the DRC case On March 6, 2007, the Presidency of the ICC constituted Trial Chamber I in the Lubanga case as follows: Judge Elizabeth Odio Benito, Judge René Blattmann and Judge Adrian Fulford. The Presidency also decided to suspend the transmission of the record of proceedings of Pre-Trial Chamber I to Trial Chamber I until new Defence Counsel is assigned to Mr. Lubanga and it is determined that he or she has had adequate time to familiarise him or herself with the case.
http://www.icc-cpi.int/library/cases/ICC-01-04-01-06-842_English.pdf In March 2007, the ICC Registry announced that the accused Thomas Lubanga is in the process of seeking new Counsel as his current Lead Counsel, Jean Flamme, announced his withdrawal from the case due to health reasons. This...

Free Women’s Rights Defenders in Iran
On March 4th, thirty three women's rights defenders were arrested in Tehran during a peaceful gathering in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran.