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The 2008 Burmese Constitution Entrenches Military Control Over Parliament and Forestalls Any Hopes for Real Progress
March 30th, 2012

Contradictions and Empty Gestures- USAID's New Policy on Gender Equality
March 13th, 2012

GJC President Janet Benshoof's Letter to the Editor Published in New York Times
March 8th, 2012

GJC Respectfully Urges Ban Ki-Moon to Amend his Security Council Report
February 23rd, 2012

Paris Bar Urges Obama to Lift Abortion Restrictions
February 21st, 2012

Top QCs in protest against President Obama's "no abortion" clause
February 2nd, 2012

Suu Kyi calls for Constitutional Reform in Burma
February 1st, 2012

Watch Video of Janet Benshoof Interview with Democratic Voice of Burma
February 1st, 2012

Global Justice Center Publishes "Q&A: How the U.S. "No Abortion" Prohibition on Humanitarian Aid Violates the Rights of Women Raped in Armed Conflict"
December 21st, 2011

New Global Justice Center Documents on Post-Election Burma
December 21st, 2011

The Global Justice Center Publishes a White Paper on How Burma's New Goverment Violates the Law of Nations and Threatens Global Peace and Security
December 20th, 2011

The Global Justice Center Publishes a Q&A on the Legal Obligation of States to Classify Rape as a Weapon of War
December 20th, 2011

Article "Clinton's Visit to Myanmar Raises Hopes and Concerns" in the New York Times quotes GJC President, Janet Benshoof
November 29th, 2011

Exposing a "Pornography Ploy": The Global Justice Center calls for President U Thein Sein to release all political prisoners and make public all related trial transcripts.
October 13th, 2011

GJC Challenges ICG Policy on Burma as Dangerous and in Violation of the Law of Nations.
September 28th, 2011

Eve Ensler writes letter to the New York Times asking President Obama to lift U.S. abortion restrictions on humanitarian aid.
September 14th, 2011

GJC Writes Open Letter to ASEAN Heads of State urging them to no longer recognize Myanmar/Burma as an ASEAN member due to illegality of its constitution.
September 13th, 2011

Global Justice Center's "August 12 Campaign" on lifting U.S. abortion restrictions on humanitarian aid gets editorial in The New York Times.
September 8th, 2011

Janet Benshoof writes article for the New York University Review of Law and Social change titled "U.S. Ratification of CEDAW: An Opportunity to Radically Reframe the Right to Equality Accorded Women Under the U.S. Constitution"
August 25th, 2011

Global Justice Center launches "August 12 Campaign" to mark the 62nd Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions by urging President Obama to issue an executive order lifting U.S. abortion restrictions on humanitarian aid for girls and women raped in armed conflict
July 4th, 2011

Global Justice Center and Other Women's Health Advocates Call for the Obama Administration to Make the US a Leader in Pushing for Reproductive Rights Worldwide
June 3, 2011

GJC Writes Letter to Baroness Ashton Requesting a Security Council Resolution Declaring the Burmese Constitution Invalid Under International Law
April 11, 2011

Global Justice Center sees victory in response from US to Norway's Recommendation at UN Human Rights Council, which sets up Obama to issue an Executive Order lifting the US restrictions against abortion tied to all humanitarian aid
April 5, 2011

On International Women's Day, GJC salutes the NY City Bar Association for challenging the legality of the US abortion prohibitions imposed on US humanitarian aid for women raped in armed conflict
March 8, 2011


Events


Rural Women Are Vital To Post Conflict Reconstruction
March 1, 2012

Any Questions
June 21, 2011

Violence Against Girls in Conflict Panel Discussion in London
June 21, 2011

FPA & Commonwealth Secretariat International Symposium on "Women as Agents of Change" in London
June 20, 2011

Violence Against Girls in Conflict Panel Discussion, A parallel event during the 55th Commission on the Status of Women
February 24, 2011


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