Justice Rapid Response, in partnership with UN Women and the Institute for International Criminal Investigation will be hosting a training course on “Investigating Cases of Sexual and Gender-based Violence as International Crimes” in Doha, Qatar, from September 21 – 26, 2013. The training will be held at the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Center in Doha, at the kind invitation of the Office of the Public Prosecutor of Qatar. The training course will be conducted with JRR’s training partner, the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI) and with the support of UN Women.

The course aims at increasing the availability on the JRR-UN Women special sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) roster, within the broader JRR roster, of Arabic-speaking criminal justice and gender experts in SGBV crimes investigations, primarily from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

The deadline for nominations is 28 June 2013. In order to make a nomination, please send the documents below, duly completed, to the JRR Secretariat.

The full application package consists of:

- Call for Nominations

- JRR Nomination Form, to be completed and signed by the nominating entity

- JRR Personal History Form, to be completed by the nominated expert

- JRR Fact Sheet and JRR FAQ

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In order to ensure that an increasing number and variety of trained SGBV experts are available to the international community, UN Women and Justice Rapid Response, engaging the training expertise of the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI), in 2012 created a training, roster management, and deployment mechanism that provides a holistic group of needed experts in a timely manner.

UN Women-JRR Project: Securing Accountability for Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes under International Law

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UN Rule of Law Unit highlights the second Justice Rapid Response training course on “Investigating Cases of Sexual and Gender-based Violence as International Crimes”

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Please note that the nature of the work carried out by experts on the JRR Roster when deployed to assist States and organizations requires the information on this website on deployments to be of a general nature.

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27 January 2013, Pretoria, South Africa

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Speech Delivered by the Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Ms. Lulu Xingwana, at the Official Opening for the Training Course on “Investigating Cases of Sexual and Gender-based Violence as International Crimes” (27 January 2013, Pretoria, South Africa)

Keynote address by Mr Andries Nel, MP, Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development at the Opening of a Training Course on “Investigating Cases of Sexual and Gender-based Violence as International Crimes” organised by Justice Rapid Response, UN Women, and the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (27 January 2013, Pretoria, South Africa)

South Africa: Justice Dept Focuses On Rooting Out Gender-Based Crimes (allafrica.com)

Canada: Canada supports the fight against sexual and gender-based crimes

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The JRR Group of Participants (GOP) meeting took place on 17 November 2012, in The Hague in the margins of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), with the financial support of the Government of Finland.

The JRR GOP meeting was convened to give an update to JRR participants and interested parties on the activities JRR has undertaken since the December 2011 GOP meeting in New York. () This meeting was also an opportunity to present the GOP with JRR’s work plan for the coming 12 months.

The meeting was chaired by Ambassador Mirjam Blaak, Uganda, JRR Chair, in presence of Andras Vamos-Goldman, JRR Executive Director. The presentation of 2012 activities and the proposed work plan for 2013 were followed by a Question and Answer session.

Click here to download the 2012 Report to the GOP.

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The JRR Executive Board held a meeting on 17 November 2012, in The Hague in the margins of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Representatives of a majority of JRR Executive Board members (Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, and Uganda) as well as staff of the JRR Secretariat, met to discuss JRR activities in 2012, and to consider the JRR budget and work plan for 2013.

The Executive Board adopted the work plan for 2013, which details training, rostering, outreach and deployment activities, and subsequently approved the budget.

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