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PRESS RELEASE
(November 2000)
1. Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery will be held from December, 7 to 12, 2000. See Program for the time schedule.2. International Public Hearing on Crimes Against Women in Recent Wars and Conflicts will be held on December 11, 2000 with survivors from 12 areas such as Chiapas, Colombia, Guatemala, Algeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Burma, Burundi and Indonesia. See brochure for details.
3. The judges and chief prosecutors for the Tribunal are:
Judges:
Ms. Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, USA (Former President of the Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal)
Ms. Carmen Maria Argibay, Argentina (President of the International Association of Women Judges)
Ms. Christine Chinkin, UK (Expert on Gender and International Law, London University)
Mr. P.N.Bhagwati, India (vice-chairperson of UN Human Rights Committee, former chief justice of supreme court of India)
Mr. Vitit Muntarbhorn, Thailand (former UN Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Chularonkorn University law professor)
Mr. Willy Mutunga, Kenya (Chairperson of Commission on Human Rights of Kenya, Professor of University of Kenya)
Chief Prosecutors：
Ms. Patricia Viseur Sellers (Legal Advisor for the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia)
Ms. Tina Dolgopol (Flinders University, former staff of ICJ)
4. We are expecting 66 participating survivors for the Tribunal; 19 from South Korea, 2 from North Korea, 9 from China, 15 from Taiwan, 14 from The Philippines, 4 from Indonesia, 1 from the Netherlands, and 2 from East Timor. The survivors for the Tribunal are going to have a meeting with the participating survivors for the International Public Hearing on Crimes against Women in Recent Wars and Conflicts, on December 11, Monday, from 6:30pm (18:30) to 8:30pm (20:30).
5. We are expecting about 600 Japanese participants and 500 overseas participants; 220 from South Korea, 10 from North Korea, 35 from China, 100 from Taiwan, 35 from Philippine, 13 from Indonesia, 4 from the Netherlands, and 4 from East Timor.
6. The International Organizing committee for Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal sent a notice letter to the Japanese government in early November inviting them to the Tribunal.
7. The demonstration walk will be planned after the judgments on December 12, and then survivors will have a meeting with members of the Diet.
8. The symposium on International Criminal Courts (ICC) will be held on December 12, 2000 at 6:30pm (18:30) to 9pm (21:00).
9. The demonstration to appeal the Tribunal will be held in front of the Japanese Diet building on December 29, 2000 at noon. Some victimized countries/areas also plan to have a demonstration in each country/area at the same time. Besides that, supporters in Paris and Beograd will have a meeting to appeal their support to the Tribunal and criticize the Japanese government’s postwar responsibilities. In Germany, Korean and Japanese female residents will have a meeting to support the Tribunal in front of the Japanese embassy in Berlin on November 22. On November 21, a shelter for survivors of sexual violence in former Yugoslavia, Media Mondial, will have a press conference. Ms. Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a congresswoman and former minister in the Ministry of Justice in Germany, who is a member of the United Nations Mission in East Timor, will give a speech. In addition, a demonstration is planned in NY.
Issued by VAWW-NET Japan
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