Renate Winter

Overview

Renate Winter born Vienna, Austria March 8, 1944. International lawyer and judge; expert on juvenile rights. International judge on UN Mission in Kosovo, 2000-02; judge to Appeals Chamber of UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, which established the crimes of recruiting child soldiers and forced marriages, 2002. President of Special Court, Sierra Leone, 2008-10.

Quotations

“My youngest [defendant] was so small, he couldn’t even carry a Kalashnikov.” (A Life Worth Living, Dec. 16)

“If women cannot lobby for better status in peacetime, we have no chance whatsoever of getting them better status during or after a war. If we cannot achieve that women are not viewed as objects but as subjects, then we have no chance to tell soldiers at war how to behave correctly.” (Vienna, April 6, 2006, building_peace_empowering_women; photo intlawgirls)