Created in 1996 and based in Montreal, Canada, the Coalition for Women’s Human Rights in Conflict Situations is a working group whose mandate is to ensure that crimes against women in conflict situations are adequately examined and prosecuted. The main focus of the Coalition is to promote the adequate prosecution of gender violence perpetrators in African transitional justice systems, in order to create precedents that recognise violence against women in conflict situations and help find ways to obtain justice for women survivors of sexual violence.
The website highlights the Coalition’s advocacy campaigns, namely in the context of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and Former Yugoslavia and the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Coalition’s press releases and a certain number of publications can be downloaded. The website also contains links to organisations who have collaborated in some way with the Coalition, many of which are Southern based.