Deadline- APRIL 30th, 2013
Women’s Link Worldwide is inviting nominations form around the world for Gender Justice Uncovered Awards. This award aims to highlight decisions or statements made in the context of a legal process by judges, members of human rights committees, asylum offices, prosecutors, or ombuds persons which have a positive or negative impact on gender equality, including those related to sexual and reproductive rights, gender violence, and gender discrimination.
Women’s Link Worldwide sees the courts as an instrument in which civil society initiates a dialogue with judicial authorities regarding how rights should be interpreted, what their impact is on people’s day-to-day life and the ways in which they delimit legislative and executive activity. It is from this perspective that these Awards were born.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Sentences or decisions issued in the context of a judicial process – be it national, regional or international-by judges, members of committees or commissions that monitor human rights treaties through individual cases, or members of asylum and refugee boards or offices. Written decisions by public prosecutors or ombudsman offices acting within their capacities to review violations of rights can also be considered.
- Sentences or decisions that have had a positive or negative effect on gender equality, such as, for example, decisions regarding sexual and reproductive rights, gender violence, equality in family relations, and gender discrimination.
- Sentences or decisions that were issued in the preceding year.
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