WUNRN
Worldwide
Objectives
- Advancing
women's rights to equal justice
- Promoting
women's access to the courts
- Increasing
the number of women judges at all levels
- Organizing
and strengthening women judges associations
- Developing
judicial leadership
- Conducting
legal research on gender equality and human rights
- Exchanging
information on issues of critical concern to women
- Uprooting
gender bias from judicial systems
Worldwide
Achievements
- Encouraging
application of human rights law to domestic courts
- Conducting
judicial training on women's human rights throughout the world
- Research
on gender and the law
- Sponsoring
international conferences
- Promoting
ratification of and monitoring compliance with international and regional
human rights conventions
- Facilitating
global communication on gender justice issues
- Fostering
judicial exchange visits
- Protecting
judicial independence
- Honoring
significant contributors to women's rights
- Collaborating
with other institutions on international justice and women's issues
- Issuing
a semiannual newsletter in English, Spanish, and French
- Maintaining
a membership directory; creating a global database of women judges
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