December 1993 January 1994; Lahore, Pakistan;

With the Simorgh Women’s Collective

March 1994; Tokyo, Japan;
In collaboration with sixty four women’s groups in Japan

March 1994; Bangalore, India; 

With the Women’s Voice, India

September 1994; Cairo, Egypt,

With UBINIG of Bangladesh

January 1995;

With Vimochana, India

June 1995; Kathmandu, Nepal;

With two hundred Nepali ngos working on trafficking issues

June 1995; Beirut, Lebanon;

With women’s and human rights organizations in Tunisia and Lebanon

September 1995; Beijing, China;

With over one hundred women human rights groups from all over the world

March 1998; Beirut, Lebanon

June 24-26,   1999; Nairobi, Kenya;

With women’s human rights groups in Africa

September 1999; Aotearoa, New Zealand,

With the Maori Women’s Network

November 1999; Casablanca, Morocco;

With Amal, Morocco and Crinali, Italy

November 1999; Havana, with El Taller- Central America,

Cuban Women’ Federation and Institute of Philosophy

Reheld during the World Social Forum, Puerto Allegre, January 2003

March 8, 2001; Cape Town, South Africa;

With an International Coordinating Committee and

a network of local women’s and human rights organizations

August 30, 2001; Durban, South Africa with the Institute for Black Research,

University of Natal; the University of the Western Cape,

Women’s Support Network, Cape Town; the Durban Social Forum,

Sangoco and several other national

and international

NGO’s

December 4, 2001; University of New South Wales with ANCORW

Sydney, Australia

South Asia Court of Women on the Violence of Trafficking and HIV/ AIDS

January 18, 2004, with International Action Center; USA;

Arab and Africa Research Center, Egypt;

Institute for Black Research, South Africa;

Center for development studies, India.

and several other local and international ngos

at the World Social Forum, Mumbai, India

April, 2004; University of New South Wales with ANCORW

Sydney, Australia;

December 10, 2004 with the Africa Social Forum

and several other local and regional ngos

at the Africa Social Forum, Lusaka, Zambia

January 29, 2005 with the Africa Social Forum

and several other regional and international ngos

at the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil

February 2005, Havana, Cuba in association with

the Institute of Philosophy and Galfisa

June 15-18, 2005 in Tunis, Tunisia

the Solidarity Committee for Iraq and Palestine

January 22, 2006, World Social Forum Polycentric, Bamako,

with local Mali organizations;

Forum for another Mali, Mali; Women in Black India, Philippines, Nepal;

Forum for African Women for Solidarity Economy, Senegal;

Institute of Black Research, South Africa; Enda, Senegal, Ethiopia;

Gender Equity Unit, University of the Western Cape, South Africa;

Asafe, Cameroon; Widows of Rwanda, Rwanda;

Kenya Debt Relief Network, Kenya; Femnet, Zambia, Tanzania;

Genta, South Africa; Institute of Philosophy, Cuba;

Federation of Cuban Women, Cuba; Martin Luther King Center, Cuba

January 27, 2006, World Social Forum Polycentric, Caracas, Venezuela 

with local Venezuelan organizations ;

Intellectuals and artists in the defense of humanity, Venezuela;

Federation of Cuban Women; Pratec, Peru;

Embacorpaz, Women of the Consensus, Colombia;

Martin Luther King Center, Cuba; Madres de Plaza Mayo, Argentina;

Zapatistas, Mexico; Asian Women’s Human Rights Council;

Cieds Collective, India; Forum for African Women for Solidarity Economy, Senegal

Institute of Black Research, University of Natal, South Africa

January 22, 2007, World Social Forum, Nairobi

with CIEDS Collective, India,the Gender Equity Support Unit, University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Kenya Debt Relief Network; Kenya

From Dispossession to Livelihoods, Security and Safe Spaces

August 18, 2007, Colombo, Sri Lanka

With UNDP in association with UNAIDS, UNIFEM SARO, ICRW, Inform – Sri Lanka, Centre for Women’s Research; CENWOR – Sri Lanka; Siyath Foundation, Sri Lanka; FWLD, Sri Lanka; Lawyers Collective, India; PWN+, India; Vimochana, India; Milana, India; Abhaya Action Aid, India; Lanka Plus, Sri Lanka; El Taller International

July 27 – 30, 2009

Vimochana with Asia Women’s Human Rights Council, El Taller International and thirty women’s organizations all over India.

From Vulnerability to Free, Just and Safe Movement

August 4 – 6, 2009, Bali, Indonesia

UNDP and Asia Women’s Human Rights Council, with partner organizations in South East Asia, El Taller International

2012,

Oakland, California, USA : Women’s Economic Agenda with partner organization and homeless peoples’ networks in South East of the USA.

2013,

Philadelphia, USA :

The Poor Peoples’ Homeless and Economic Campaign with

partner organization and homeless people’s networks, held the Court in the eastern region of the USA.

Both these Courts are in preparation for the US Court on Homelessness and Poverty to be held later.

2013

Tunis, Tunisia at the World Social Forum

A reflection meeting on the different Courts held in the last twenty years; this was held at the last World Social Forum and several ideas were proposed on how we should proceed.

Several imaginings of justice, existing jurisprudence and the need to continue or work moving from a retributives to restorative justice; from a justice of punishment to one where we can find ourselves in dignity, reparation and redressal. 

2015

Bangalore, India

Vimochana and the core group com[posed of fifteen Women’s human rights organization hosted the International gathering of the Women in Black, and held a World Court at the Mount Carmel college in the city. The Court focussed on Women and the Violence around conflict in times of wars; it also looked at the violence in times of peace.

March 22, 2006, World Social Forum Polycentric, Karachi, Pakistan

with the Cieds Collective, India ; Vimochana, India ; El Taller International, Tunisia ;

the Institute of Black Research, University of Natal South Africa ;

the Gender Equity Support Unit, University of the Western Cape, South Africa;

Kenya Debt Relief Network; Kenya;

Institute of Philosophy, Cuba; Women in Black India, Philippines, Nepal

Reheld in March 30, 2006 in Lahore, Pakistan

with Simorgh;