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| March 4, 2009 |
women Nobel Peace Laureates are encouraged by recent progress in the work of the International
Criminal Court in Sudan.
We remain deeply concerned by ongoing attacks against humanitarian aid workers in
government-controlled towns, continued use of rape as a tactic of war, and obstructions to
international efforts to resolve the conflict. The situation in Darfur is still desperate, after almost
six years of armed conflict.
We are convinced that justice will be a pillar of peace in the Sudan, as it will be globally. The
creation of the International Criminal Court is a critical and significant development in
international law that took more than five decades to establish. With its global reach, it has the
potential to prevent, or drastically reduce, the deaths and devastation caused by violent conflict
and abuses of power.
The people of Darfur deserve—and have clearly vocalized a desire for—justice and
accountability. We urge the friends of Sudan in the international community to let the Court do its
work.
Betty William, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai