International Justice Day is celebrated throughout the world on the anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court, to recognize the emerging system of international criminal justice. Please join us for the New York City Bar Association's first-ever event marking this special occasion.
Speakers:
Hon. Patricia O'Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel
H. E. Mr. Christian Wenaweser, Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the United Nations, President of the ICC Assembly of States Parties
David Tolbert, President, International Center for Transitional Justice
Special Musical Guests:
Bethany & Rufus
Sponsored by:
Council on International Affairs, Mark R. Shulman, Chair; Committee on International Human Rights, Stephen L. Kass, Chair

Co-sponsored by :
American Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC)
Committee on International Criminal Law, ABA Section of International Law
Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC)

Location: New York City Bar Association, 42 West 44 Street, Great Hall – New York, USA

Contact Information: For more information, see: http://www.nycbar.org/EventsCalendar/show_event.php?eventid=1441

To register, visit: https://www.nycbar.org/EventsCalendar/register/?event=1441&price=1134

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
ORGANIZED BY THE SCHOOL OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

CONFERENCE THEMES:
1. The Post-Colonial African State and Impunity: Governance, Conflicts, Human Rights Violations and Accountability ; 2. Peace in Africa’s Conflict Zones and Justice for Gross Atrocities: Mutually Exclusive or interdependent Ends? 3. From Rwanda to Sierra Leone: the Impact of the United Nations International Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Impunity in Africa ;4. Africa and the Politics of International Criminal Justice: Implications for A Universally Credible International Criminal Justice Mechanism ;5. Africa and the International Criminal Court: Any Genuine Objections or Just a Disregard for Treaty Obligations?;6. Africa and the Complementarity Principle of the International Criminal Court: Implications for the Domestic Rule of Law and Justice in Dealing with Atrocity Crimes;7. The Limits of the International Criminal Court in Achieving Peace and Justice in Africa ; 8. Impunity and Justice: Any African International Criminal Justice Alternatives?

The conference themes will be organized into various panels of four (4) speakers each. Any one proposing to present a paper at the conference is required to submit a topic and an abstract of NOT more than one thousand (1000) words within any of the conference themes by NO LATER than 15 November 2009.

Location: SCHOOL OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

Contact Information: The conference is free and open to a broad range of interested actors. On-line registration will be available on the conference portal at www.law.wits.ac.za.

Please submit your abstracts and papers to:
Prof. Vincent O. Nmehielle at Vincent.Nmehielle@wits.ac.za

On 17 July the world celebrates International Justice Day, in honor of the anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

In advance of this important celebration, the Coalition will host a LIVE QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION with CICC Convenor, William R Pace, on FRIDAY 16 JULY 2010 from 4 to 5 p.m. CET (10-11 a.m. EST) on the Coalition’s blog at http://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/blog

Celebrating the 12th anniversary of the Rome Statute, CICC Convenor William R. Pace will answer questions on the Rome Statute system and reflect on key outcomes of the recent ICC Review Conference.

To follow the live discussion, visit the Coalition's blog “In Situ: See Justice through the Eyes of Civil Society”, at: http://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/blog

Location: CICC Blog, “In Situ: See Justice through the Eyes of Civil Society”, at: http://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/blog

Contact Information: We kindly invite you to submit your questions during the live event or in advance to: communications@coalitionfortheicc.org

The Turkish Coalition for the ICC (TCICC) will organise a meeting to introduce the Victims Rights Manual.

10:00 to 10:30: Presentation of the work of the Turkish Coalition for the International Criminal Court;

10:30 to 11:15 Universal Justice for Victims;

11:30 - 12 00 Presentation of the Victims' Rights Manual

12:00 to 13:00 The ICC in Turkey: ratification and implementation

Location: Best Hotel, Ankara

Contact Information: For more information, visit http://www.ucmk.org.tr or email amato@coalitonfortheicc.org

Do you have a burning question for the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Now you can ask him directly. On July 17, International Justice Day, IJCentral (an outreach initiative of Skylight Pictures) will launch a new section on the site called "Ask the Prosecutor", where ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will answer questions about the ICC on camera. In this same section the Prosecutor will also be posting monthly video updates on the cases and investigations moving their way through the ICC.

Ask your question now by logging in at:
http://community.ijcentral.org/group/asktheprosecutor

And if you haven't already seen "The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court", or would like to see it again, the 1-hour version can be streamed free online at: http://skylightpictures.com/watch-films/

Location: http://community.ijcentral.org/group/asktheprosecutor

Contact Information: For more information please contact the IJCentral team at: questions@ijcentral.org

July 17, 10:00 am.
Presented by the St. Louis Alliance for the International Criminal Court. Sponsored by Amnesty International, the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, the Ethical Action Committee of the Ethical Society, UNA of Greater St. Louis, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). The Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road.

Location: The Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road, Richmond Heigts MO, USA

Contact Information: Ron Glossop at rglossop@mindspring.com or (314)869-2303.

Saturday, July 17th, 1pm
Sponsored by The American NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International, Student World Assembly, Council of
American Students in International Negotiations and United Nations Association-USA

Location: Union Square, New York

Contact Information: For more information, see: http://www.amicc.org/

3-4 pm
This panel discussion to take place during the African Union Summit in Kampala, will provide a space for leading Sudanese activists and lawyers to highlight the most essential areas where progress must be made towards a sustainable peace for all of Sudan. In the context of the AU’s “year of peace and security” and its position as the lead international actor across the political and security spheres, there is no more important time for immediate and decisive action. Panelists will focus on the regional implications of further violence in Sudan – both in the context of the north/south and the referendum, as well as Darfur.

Panelists will include:
Edmund Yakani (Coordinator, Sudanese Network for Democratic Elections)
Salih Osman (Sudanese human rights lawyer and former Member of Parliament)
Abdelbagi Jibril (Executive Director Darfur Relief and Documentation Centre, member of the Human Rights and Advocacy Network for Democracy (HAND))
Jonathan Loeb (Managing Director, 24 Hours for Darfur)
The panel will be moderated by Dismas Nkunda, CO-Chair of Darfur Consortium.

Two Reports will be presented:

Past and Future of UNAMID: Tragic Failure or Glorious Success released by the Human Rights and Advocacy Network (HAND)

Darfurian Voices: Documenting Darfurian Refugees’ Views on Issues of Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation released by 24 Hours for Darfur

Location: Africana Hotel, Plot 2-4 Wampewo Ave, Kampala, Uganda

Contact Information: Please RSVP to Sandrah Akello at the International Refugee Rights Initiative and the Darfur Consortium: sandrah.akello@refugee-rights.org or +256-41-4340274

From 31 May to 11 June 2010, there has been held in Kampala, Uganda, the Review Conference of the Statute of the International Criminal Court. It gathered together over 5,000 representatives of States Parties to the Rome Statute, States not parties, governmental and nongovernmental organizations.

On completion of this work, the conference adopted resolutions including the amendment of Articles 8 and 124 of the Rome Statute on cooperation and complementarity and the definition and methods of initiating prosecution for the crime of aggression (so-called internal filter and external).


The Congolese Coalition for the International Criminal Court in the DRC (NC-ICC/DRC), in collaboration with the Bar of Lubumbashi, is organizing this Friday, July 23, 2010, at the House of the Bar, a dissemination workshop which will help to reflect on the impact of the resolutions of Kampala.

It will, therefore, be about giving voice to Lubumbashi Lawyers (Lawyers, Judges, Journalists, Researchers and Lawyers operating in NGOs working for the fight against impunity for serious crimes) to analyze the resolutions adopted by the Kampala conference, giving their legal submissions and identify the measures that the DRC must take to give effect and the role that all actors of civil society should play.

A panel of four speakers will be established so that each of them presents, for fifteen minutes, the quintessence of the resolution entrusted him and its comments. To allow guests to participate in the debates actively, they will be distributed a few copies of resolutions.
At the same time, it will launch a plea for the support of an amendment to the reorganization of the civil defense before the ICC.

Location: The House of the Bar of Lubumbashi (DRC)

Contact Information: For more information, please email: coalitioncpirdc@yahoo.fr

Taught by international experts in the field of Human Rights, the various intensive courses that make up the Academy are designed to provide high quality legal education in comparative international human rights and in humanitarian law, with an emphasis on the practical aspects in various fields. In addition, the IHRA offers the participants a forum for exchanging ideas and opinions on various human rights issues. Apart from the lectures, we plan a day filling field trip on a weekday to the International Institutions in The Hague.

Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands

Contact Information: More Information about the Academy and the application form can be found on the website: www.law.uu.nl/ihra. If you have any questions, feel free to send an email to: ihra@uu.nl . Deadline for registration: 1 June 2010