South Africa and the ICC Where does South Africa’s relationship with the ICC stand today? Watch all the interviews at https://africanperspectives.wayamo.com The Wayamo Foundation and the Rule of Law Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung are proud to present ‘’Precarity or Prosperity: African Perspectives on the Future of the International Criminal Court’’, a video gallery featuring a …
African states, the AU and the ICC As the former United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, why does our human rights framework necessitate a strong ICC? Watch all the interviews at https://africanperspectives.wayamo.com The Wayamo Foundation and the Rule of Law Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung are proud to present ‘’Precarity or Prosperity: African Perspectives on the …
African states, the AU and the ICC Let’s try and imagine a utopian system of international justice on the African continent. What would it look like? What practical steps can we take to get there? Watch all the interviews at https://africanperspectives.wayamo.com The Wayamo Foundation and the Rule of Law Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung are proud …
Lawyer Betty Kaari Murungi, Senior Adviser on Transitional Justice to the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), the body tasked with oversight for the implementation of the South Sudan peace process, and a member of the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability; discusses continental, regional and domestic responses to international crimes (genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity) and crimes …
Richard J. Goldstone, Former Justice at South Africa’s Constitutional Court and founding Chief Prosecutor of the ICTR and ICTY, shares his thoughts on the role of the judiciary in defending human rights and the rule of law during apartheid in South Africa. Judge Goldstone also discusses the relationship between the ICC and African states, as well as the future of …
6-11 July 2017 Professor of Law, Tiyanjana Maluwa, discusses the importance of strengthening national justice mechanisms in Africa, the ICC’s purported ‘African bias’ and role that global leaders ought to be taking in the system of international justice.
22-24 March 2016 What is next for the ICC-Africa relationship? Are there African domestic and regional solutions for grave crimes? Is there progress on human rights in Africa? How does transnational criminal law link to core international crimes? How to design reparations schemes for victims? What is the role of NGOs in international crime investigations? Can there be immunity for …
18-19 October 2016 On 18-19 October 2016, the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability and the Wayamo Foundation hosted International Symposium on the theme, “Towards a System of International Justice” in Arusha, Tanzania. Mohamed Chande Othman, the Chief Justice of Tanzania, and member of the Africa Group for Justice Accountability, reflects on the symposium and on justice systems in Africa
6-11 July 2017 Former Chief Prosecutor of both the ICTY & ICTR, Richard Goldstone, gives his take on the ICC’s ruling of South Africa’s “non-compliance” in its failure to arrest Sudan’s President, Omar al-Bashir, when he visited Johannesburg for an African Union meeting in 2015.
22-24 March 2016 Moderator • Bettina Ambach Director, Wayamo Foundation, Berlin Panellists • Dapo Akande Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford • Femi Falana Human rights activist and lawyer, Lagos • Richard Goldstone Former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia • Tiyanjana Maluwa H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law, …
