A New Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity Timeline (ongoing)

This website lays out the timeline for how a coalition of organizations and universities led by Professor Lisa Davis of the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at CUNY School of Law worked to remove the outdated definition of gender adopted from the Rome Statute in the draft Crimes Against Humanity treaty. It also tracks the continuation of that work as the draft treaty slowly makes its way through the United Nations.

Prof. Davis, pulled together a coalition of organizations and universities. This Coalition sought to ensure that the draft treaty reflected the progress made since the Rome Convention and not adopt the outdated definition of gender. By December 2018, the Coalition was successful in organizing hundreds of civil society members, states and UN experts who made their voices heard to the Commission and called for the removal or revision of the definition of gender.