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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