No Peace Without Justice
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No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) is an international non-profit organization, founded in 1993, a member of the Steering Committee of the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC), and a constituent association of the Nonviolent Transnational Radical Party, an NGO with General (category I) Consultative Status at the United Nations ECOSOC. NPWJ states that its mission is "working for the protection and promotion of human rights, democracy, the rule of law and international justice. Current thematic fields of action include the promotion of democratic reform in the broader Middle East and North Africa, through constructive dialogue between Governments, parliaments and civil society; a campaign for the ratification and effective implementation of the Maputo Protocol on Women’s Rights in Africa, and in particular the abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation; and the strengthening of an effective international criminal justice system for the prevention, deterrence and prosecution of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide."