Global Justice Center
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| Founded | 2005 |
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| Type | Non-profit NGO |
| Focus | Human rights activism |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
| Product | Non profit human rights advocacy |
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Key people
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Janet Benshoof (President & Founder) |
| Mission | To work for peace, justice, and security by enforcing international laws that protect human rights and promote gender equality. |
| Website | globaljusticecenter.net |
The Global Justice Center (GJC) is an international human rights and humanitarian law organization aiming to advance gender equality by helping to implement and enforce human rights laws. Headquartered in New York City and led by founder Janet Benshoof, the GJC is a member of the United Nations NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. The GJC works with national and international Non-governmental organizations, the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and others to effect change.
The Global Justice Center was founded by Janet Benshoof in 2005 to help pressure governments and institutions to enforce and implement treaties and international human rights laws that advance gender equality.
The Global Justice Center focuses on four broad areas:
The GJC’s work in the realm of abortion provision for war rape victims stems from their conviction of states’ “positive obligations to provide non-discriminatory medical care under the Geneva Conventions,” which, according to their interpretation, “entitles all victims of armed conflict — including those brutalized by rape — to complete and non-discriminatory medical treatment.” The organization continues to work to repeal the United States’ Helms Amendment of 1973 which states that, “no foreign assistance funds may be used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions.” The GJC argues against an overly restrictive interpretation of the Helms Amendment that includes all abortions, and along with the Government of Norway has called on the United States to allow for abortions for war rape victims. On 12 August 2016, the Global Justice Center launched a White House petition asking US President Barack Obama to issue an executive order to lift the ban on abortions in cases of "rape, life endangerment and incest."
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