22-24 March 2016 Non-governmental organisations can play a crucial role in the investigation and prosecution of international crimes at both a domestic and an international level. NGOs have collected evidence of allegations of international crimes and worked to institute domestic and international proceedings concerning international crimes. This panel will discuss the different roles that NGOs can and should play in …
22-24 March 2016 How can the African Union resolution exempting serving Heads of State from prosecution be reconciled with the duty to render justice for atrocity crimes? This panel explores the ongoing controversy over the scope of immunity under international law, and in particular whether Heads of State enjoy immunity from prosecution for international crimes. Moderator • Patryk I. Labuda …
6-8 August 2017 Interview with Aimée Comrie, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer, GLO.ACT, Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Section, United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime, Vienna, Austria
Since 2017, Wayamo has been implementing capacity-building efforts in Nigeria, conducting workshops on international criminal justice and recently on evidence and case management databases. We asked prosecutors belonging to the Complex Casework Group in the Nigerian Ministry of Justice what they had learnt in our capacity building workshops, what the impact had been, and how it had affected their work. …
Anietie Ewang is a researcher at the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch. In this video she describes the challenging security situation in Nigeria and shares her thoughts on how the prosecution of terrorism-related crimes in the country can be improved. While stressing the important role that the International Criminal Court plays, she also sees a role for international agencies …
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 …
Akingbolahan Adeniran is the former rule of law adviser to the Vice-President of Nigeria. In this interview he addresses issues of international criminal justice, and the challenges, both political and systemic, facing the investigation and prosecution of such crimes in the country. The former investigator at the International Criminal Court also discusses the importance of positive complementarity, how it can …
11 July 2017 Interview with Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor, United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, by Wayamo Foundation Director, Bettina Ambach – Dakar, Senegal, 11 July 2017. ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW. Question 1: We are here in Dakar for the exchange/sharing of experiences between the members of the Special Criminal Court of the Central African Republic, the Extraordinary African Chambers in …
Lagos Television: http://www.lagostelevision.com From 28-30 June, Wayamo organised a capacity-building workshop for military investigators and prosecutors on ‘STRENGTHENING JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN NIGERIA’ at the Southern Sun Hotel Ikoyi in Lagos. The three-day workshop was organised by the Wayamo Foundation, the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability and was opened by General Yusuf Shalangwa, …
6-8 August 2017 Interview with Justice Ibrahim H. Juma, Acting Chief Justice, Judiciary of Tanzania, on judicial independence in the fight against international and transnational crime
