18-19 October 2016 Howard Varney speaks about the transitional justice in South Africa, reflecting on the rainbow nation, successes, failures and mistakes in the 1990s and today. Varney is a senior program adviser with the International Center for Transitional Justice, and a practicing advocate at the Johannesburg Bar. In the early 1990s he was an attorney with the Legal Resources …
18-19 October 2016 Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp on the International Criminal Court, “hybrid” tribunals and the difficulty of creating the third wave of international criminal justice. Stephen J. Rapp served as Ambassador-at-Large heading the Office of Global Criminal Justice in the U.S. State Department from September 2009 to August 2015. In that position he coordinated US government support to international …
18-19 October 2016 Elise Keppler from Human Rights Watch talks about bias, “race hunting,” and the misperceptions of the relationship between Africa and the International Criminal Court. Keppler is associate director of HRW’s International Justice Program and the author of fact-finding reports on the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone and Uganda’s International Crimes Division, and played an integral role …
18-19 October 2016 Dr. Robert Eno speaks about the significance of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the judicial landscape of Africa. Eno has been the Registrar of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights since 2012. The court’s mission is to enhance the protective mandate of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights by …
18-19 October 2016 Angela Mudukuti from the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) talks about her organsation’s case against the South African government for its failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir, as well as the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability and its potential role in mending the relationship between African states and the International Criminal Court. Angela Mudukuti …
18-19 October 2016 Brenda Hollis, Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, leads the discussion on finding justice, the revival of hybrid tribunals and the limitations of the International Criminal Court. Hollis, the Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone since February 2010, was responsible for leading the legal team prosecuting former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Hollis was …
Mark Kersten, Deputy Director, Wayamo Foundation: East Africa must redouble its commitment to fighting impunity and ensuring there is justice for international and transnational crimes
Fatou Bensouda, former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, discusses the impact of the ICC’s jurisprudence on international criminal justice in Africa.
From Nuremberg in 1945 through Tokyo, Rome, The Hague and Kampala, this film tracks the legal and moral debate more than seven decades in the making.
In July 2019, the Wayamo Foundation hosted the fifth in the series of network meetings of Directors of Public Prosecutions (DPPs), Directors of Criminal Investigations (DCIs) and Deputy Attorneys–General of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia.
