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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.womenslinkworldwide.org/en/awards">https://www.womenslinkworldwide.org/en/awards</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Nomination Form:
</span><a href="https://www.womenslinkworldwide.org/en/awards/case-nomination"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://www.womenslinkworldwide.org/en/awards/case-nomination</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mqLkqlhABc1QNu4gFdwH9iFMl9J2vm2n" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="475" height="53" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50748/images/Logo%20black%20and%20magenta.png"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Women’s Link Worldwide Launches the 10th Edition of the Gender Justice Awards</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Today it begins the tenth edition of the Gender Justice Awards, where people all over the world choose the best and worst judicial decisions related to gender equality</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Madrid, September 17, 2018</span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> – Today the international nonprofit organization Women's Link Worldwide
launches the 10th edition of the <a href="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PfZ8ksem8ot5pp3raUpYbSFMl9J2vm2n" target="_blank">
Gender Justice Awards</a>, an annual initiative, where anyone can nominate the best and worst judicial decisions related to gender equality from courts worldwide.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“Now more than ever women and girls around the world are standing together to share stories of the violence and discrimination committed against them. While the fight is advancing
in the streets, women and girls continue to face obstacles to accessing justice in the courtroom”</span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, explains
<b>Estefanny Molina</b>, a lawyer at Women’s Link.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Some decisions are shocking, as the decision in “La Manada” case in Spain, in which a court refused to convict five men of sexual assault despite having video of the rape, reasoning
that the woman did not "actively resist" the assault. Or the decision of a court in Virginia (USA) following a trend of criminalizing issues related to pregnancy when it upheld a 5-month prison sentence of a woman for disposing of her stillborn fetus after
suffering from an obstetric emergency in her home.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Others are a big step in the right direction for gender equality. In Kenya, a court ruled that medical workers violated the rights to health, dignity, and to be free from cruel inhuman
and degrading treatment, of a pregnant woman that was forced to deliver her baby on a concrete floor and suffered obstetric violence. </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“The Awards are a tool for all of us to monitor judges’ decisions around the world-to commend their work when they do it well, as well as to shine a light on them when their decisions
are discriminatory”</span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, concludes
<b>Molina</b>.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Starting today and until October 31st, anyone anywhere can nominate judicial decisions for the 2018 Gender Justice Awards, by visiting the Women’s Link website. The announce of the
winners will take place the first week of December.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Getting involved in the Awards</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Anyone can participate in the Awards by going to Women’s Link’s website and nominating and voting for the judicial decisions that either promote or undermine women’s and girls’ rights.
There are many ways to participate: nominate a case, vote for nominations, share a decision in social media, etc. </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">At the end of the voting period, a jury of human rights advocates as well as the general public, by casting their votes, will decide which are the best and worst judicial decisions
around the world this year.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jury Members of the Gender Justice Awards</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As in every edition of the Awards, a distinguished
<a href="http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=H9EjXa8RPhWRjKu0TY3sPyFMl9J2vm2n" target="_blank">
international jury</a> made up of human rights advocates, together with the public, will give to the best and worst court decisions of the year. </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This year the jury is comprised of:</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Isabel Coixet</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (Spain): Film director, screenwriter and producer.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Willy Mutunga</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (Kenya): Former Kenya’s Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Luciana Peker </span>
</b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Argentina): journalist, specializing in gender issues.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information:</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Laura Martínez (Madrid, Spain)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">+34 699 984 800</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:l.martinez@womenslinkworldwide.org"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">l.martinez@womenslinkworldwide.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Women's Link Worldwide
</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">is an international nonprofit organization that uses the power of the law to promote social change that advances the human rights of women and girls, especially those
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