Worldwide Objectives

• Advancing women's rights to equal justice
• Promoting women's access to the courts
• Increasing the number of women judges at all levels
• Organizing and strengthening women judges associations
• Developing judicial leadership
• Conducting legal research on gender equality and human rights
• Exchanging information on issues of critical concern to women
• Uprooting gender bias from judicial systems

Worldwide Achievements

• Encouraging application of human rights law to domestic courts
• Conducting judicial training on women's human rights throughout the world
• Research on gender and the law
• Sponsoring international conferences
• Promoting ratification of and monitoring compliance with international and regional human rights conventions
• Facilitating global communication on gender justice issues
• Fostering judicial exchange visits
• Protecting judicial independence
• Honoring significant contributors to women's rights
• Collaborating with other institutions on international justice and women's issues
• Issuing a semiannual newsletter in English, Spanish, and French
• Maintaining a membership directory; creating a global database of women judges