“It has probably become more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in armed conflict.”  -- Major-General Patrick Cammaert, former commander of UN peacekeeping forces in the eastern Congo.

Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray reflects on the recent International Gender Justice Dialogue

50+ women’s rights advocates, activists and technical experts from 16 countries gathered in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on April 20 and 21, 2010 to identify new strategies for advancing gender justice through the implementation and use of the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court (ICC), and for engaging with other international justice institutions such as regional human rights courts and commissions and the United Nations Security Council.

Read the full blog post on the JASS blog.

Listen to participants share their thoughts on gender justice and the dialogue in Swahili, Lingala, Arabic, Bengali, Hebrew, Burmese and Italian!

How and when will the Rome Statute and Security Council Resolution 1325 actually contribute to the delivery of justice to a critical mass of the world's women?

Despite the best efforts of Volcano Eyjafjallajokull, the Women's Initiative for Gender Justice and the Nobel Women's Initiative managed to convene the International Gender Justice Dialogue in Puerto Vallarta last month, bringing together a brain trust of individuals and organizations that are pounding on the doors of national, regional and global justice institutions to put justice for women on the agenda.

Read the full article on openDemocracy.net.