Statement by the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice on the Opening of the ICC Trial of Katanga and Ngudjolo
09 December 2009
The
trial of Germaine Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, the second trial
arising out of the Situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
opened on 24 November 2009 in The Hague. The Katanga and Ngudjolo trial
marks the first time that charges of gender-based crimes will be tried
at the ICC.
Read the statement given by Brigid Inder, Executive Director of
Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice, at the Press Conference at the
ICC.