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2014 Gender Report Card on the International Criminal Court ICC
Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice
http://www.iccwomen.org/news/berichtdetail.php?we_objectID=243
Direct Link to Full 288-Page 2014 Report:
http://www.iccwomen.org/documents/Gender-Report-Card-on-the-ICC-2014.pdf
On 10 December
2014, the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice launched the Gender Report Card on the International
Criminal Court 2014, Anniversary Edition, during the
International Criminal Court’s (ICC) 13th session of the Assembly of States
Parties (ASP) in New York. The Gender Report Card is one of the
monitoring and advocacy strategies utilised by the Women’s Initiatives to track
and analyse progress, challenges and advances in the field of international
criminal law with a focus on gender justice in particular.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Women’s Initiatives for Gender
Justice’s Gender Report Card, providing the most comprehensive gender
analysis of the ICC currently available.
Read the introduction by
Gabrielle McIntyre, Chair of the Board, and the speech by Brigid Inder,
Executive Director, presented at the Launch of the Gender Report Card 2014.
The Gender Report Card 2014 provides an overview of all Situations and
cases before the Court, and analyses the Court’s substantive work and
jurisprudence including a review of all charges for gender-based crimes. It
covers for instance the Ntaganda case in which the Pre-Trial Chamber
unanimously confirmed, for the first time before the ICC, all charges for
sexual and gender-based crimes. It also contains the most significant
developments within the trial and appeal proceedings at the ICC, including the
Trial Judgment in the Katanga case, in which the accused was acquitted of all
sexual and gender-based charges. The Gender Report Card 2014 provides
for the first time a section on reparation proceedings pending before the
Court. As in previous years, it includes an overview and statistical analysis
on victim applications to participate and applicants accepted to participate in
proceedings before the Court, as well as a section on developments in the
Court’s victim participation and legal representation system.
This year’s review of the ICC also contains an analysis of important
developments relating to the ASP, such as the ongoing recruitment for the Head
of the Court’s Independent Oversight Mechanism; the promulgation of the Court’s
Whistleblower and Anti-Fraud Policies; amendment proposals to the Rome Statute
and Rules of Procedure and Evidence; and the elections of six ICC Judges, as
well as the ASP President, Vice-Presidents, Bureau, and seven Committee on
Budget and Finance members.