11 Facts About Janet Benshoof

Janet Benshoof was an American human rights lawyer and President and Founder of the Global Justice Center.

Janet Benshoof founded the Center for Reproductive Rights, the world's first international human rights organization focused on reproductive choice and equality.

Janet Benshoof taught human rights law at Bard College and Harvard Law School and was a visiting lecturer at Yale, Columbia, Rutgers, Case Western Reserve, and Harvard Universities.

Janet Benshoof lectured and trained women leaders, judges, parliamentarians, and various UN bodies on implementing international human rights laws and international humanitarian law, including women's rights to criminal accountability under Security Council Resolutions and by the International Criminal Court.

Janet Benshoof served for 15 years as director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project, which litigated cases dealing with gender equality, free speech, and reproductive choice.

Janet Benshoof was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and its Burma Task Force and advised women from Burma, Kurdistan, and Iraq on constitutional drafting.

In 1992, Janet Benshoof left the ACLU to found the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, the first international human rights organization focused on women's rights to equality; she served as its first president.

Janet Benshoof was President of the Global Justice Center, a New York City based international human rights law organization she founded in 2005.

Janet Benshoof published numerous articles in the Harvard Law Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The New York University Journal of International Law and Policy, Issues in Science and Technology, Women's Health Issues, and Law Ka Pala, a Journal of The Burma Lawyers' Council.

Janet Benshoof appeared on the BBC, CBS Evening News, ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, Nightline, and PBS NewsHour.

Janet Benshoof died at her Manhattan home in New York City on December 18,2017, aged 70, from uterine serous carcinoma, an endometrial cancer, which had been diagnosed a month earlier, according to her son, David Janet Benshoof Klein.