Third part of footage from the Women's Caucus Sag Harbor retreat in 1999. There is a discussion about the preparation of a training manual.
Rashida Manjoo describes a multimedia approach to disseminate information about violence against women, used during a government-sponsored campaign in South Africa.
The group talks about the primary audiences of the manual and what content it should include.
The footage changes to black and white. Pam Spees describes a training video she saw that was designed to assure people appearing witnesses in court that they will be safe, but featured only men.
The video returns to color as Eleanor Conda summarizes the day's discussions. Videotape cuts to interviews with Alda Facio, Marina Meshki, and Tulika Srivastava. Alda Facio, from the UN Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention, talks about her history of work on feminist issues. She was one of the founders of the Women's Caucus. She talks about the challenges of lobbying for a better ICC. Marina Meshki, head of the Women's Study Group at the Georgian Lawyers Association, talks about how she became involved in the ICC process, and the importance of having crimes against women included in the statute. After b-roll of Women's Caucus members preparing and eating dinner (footage is dark), Tulika Srivastava talks about a case she is involved in, in which a women's organization in Uttar Pradesh is being persecuted for trying to help a woman and her children escape sexual abuse by her husband.
[Women's Caucus Sag Harbor retreat, part 3, including interviews with Alda Facio, Marina Meshki, and Tulika Srivastava]
Abstract:
Third part of footage from the Women's Caucus Sag Harbor retreat in 1999. There is a discussion about the preparation of a training manual. Rashida Manjoo describes a multimedia approach to disseminate information about violence against women, used during a government-sponsored campaign in South Africa. The group talks about the primary audiences of the manual and what content it should include. The footage changes to black and white. Pam Spees describes a training video she saw that was designed to assure people appearing witnesses in court that they will be safe, but featured only men. The video returns to color as Eleanor Conda summarizes the day's discussions. Videotape cuts to interviews with Alda Facio, Marina Meshki, and Tulika Srivastava. Alda Facio, from the UN Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention, talks about her history of work on feminist issues. She was one of the founders of the Women's Caucus. She talks about the challenges of lobbying for a better ICC. Marina Meshki, head of the Women's Study Group at the Georgian Lawyers Association, talks about how she became involved in the ICC process, and the importance of having crimes against women included in the statute. After b-roll of Women's Caucus members preparing and eating dinner (footage is dark), Tulika Srivastava talks about a case she is involved in, in which a women's organization in Uttar Pradesh is being persecuted for trying to help a woman and her children escape sexual abuse by her husband.
Sequence:
1 of 1
Creators:
WITNESSRole: Creator
Women's Caucus for Gender JusticeRole: Creator
Publisher:
WITNESS; Women's Caucus for Gender Justice; University of Texas Libraries
Date Created:
1999/12/15
Topics:
civil and political rights--women's rights
laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--witnesses
economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare
armed conflict and persecution--sexual violence
Named Entities:
Intl Criminal Court (ICC)
Alda Facio
Tulika Srivastava
Marina Meshki
Rashida Manjoo
Pam Spees
Ramini Muttettugawa
Some de Epie-Eyoh
Doris Mpoumou
Eleanor Conda
Ana Elena Obando
Languages:
eng
Geographic Focuses:
Asia--Georgia
Asia--India--Uttar Pradesh
North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
Geographic Base:
North and Central America--United States--New York--Brooklyn
Type of Resource:
Moving image
Notes:
The Women's Caucus was formed in February 1997, to intervene in the ongoing Preparatory Committee meetings for the establishment of an International Criminal Court at the United Nations. Women realized that without an organized caucus, women's concerns would not be actively defended in the documents and process of creation of an International Criminal Court. The legal issues in the ICC are complex and sensitive. They require people from different legal systems and cultures to arrive at a consensus on specific issues that may challenge local traditions or beliefs. The gender-related issues are particularly sensitive, as they are not as well understood. Gender-related crimes are often perceived to be private or individual crimes that do not rise to the level of international human rights law, or that are perceived to be taken care of by a "neutral" statute. However, the experience of women has been that neutrality usually results in leaving out crimes against women and the ways that women, because of their socially constructed roles in society, are disproportionately affected. It was these concerns that the Women's Caucus sought to address in the process of creation of an International Criminal Court. By advocating the codification of crimes of sexual, reproductive and gender violence, and inclusion of gender sensitive processes and criteria for personnel, the Caucus tried to ensure that the Court has capacity to implement justice for women.
Identifier:
B01427-0_00_00_28
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