Reports Released on Gender Mentoring Training Programme for ICC Judges

Acknowledging the impact of gender and diversity in decision-making is an essential prerequisite to ensuring equal protection of the law to all – a core commitment of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Judgments of the ICC have been criticised academically in the past for not recognising the effects of gender and the intersectionality between gender, race and gender identity. 

It is this need for a deeper understanding of gender that prompted Africa Legal Aid’s Executive Director, Evelyn A. Ankumah to develop a gender-sensitive judging training. While this programme is especially meant to benefit ICC Judges, for the broadest sharing of lessons, Judges of other international courts and tribunals also participate.