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From 1997 until March 2003,
the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice brought
together women's human rights advocates from
around the world to the negotiations toward the
International Criminal Court to firmly ingrain the
principles of gender justice and accountability
for crimes of sexual and gender violence in the
Rome Statute and its associated documents.
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In March 2003, after the
negotiations of the Rome Statute and the
supplemental documents came to an end and after
the first judges had been elected, the Women's
Caucus shut its doors in New York. In late 2003,
the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice was
established in the Hague, Netherlands, the seat of
the ICC, to demand, and help ensure, that the
gains made in the ICC's founding documents are
translated into reality as the world's first
permanent international criminal court began its
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