Women of the Courts Symposium: The Origins, Evolution, Purposes, and Achievements of the International Association of Women Judg

... I. The IAWJ's Origins and Structural Evolution from 1989 to the Present ... The IAWJ and IWJF shared a common goal: to convert the universal ideal of equal justice into a universal reality. ... As a unified organization, the IAWJ is dedicated to 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 at the national and regional levels, developing judicial leadership, conducting legal research on gender equality and human rights, exchanging information among its members and the public on issues of critical concern to women, and uprooting gender bias from judicial systems. ... The training begins with a two-week workshop in which teams composed of two carefully-selected men and women judges from four or five neighboring countries engage in an intensive, interactive study of the human rights conventions and their application to hypothetical cases involving fact patterns involving various forms of violence against women that typically arise in their respective courts.

Print Location Arline Pacht, Women of the Courts Symposium: The Origins, Evolution, Purposes, and Achievements of the International Association of Women Judges, 36 U. Tol. L. Rev. 949 (2005).

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