18-19 October 2016 What is the situation of human rights across African states? What is the law? Who will enforce it? Professor Chris Maina Peter speaks about the aspirations and reality for human rights institutions across Africa, the Malabo Protocol and the International Criminal Court. Chris Maina Peter is a professor of law at the University of Dar es Salaam …
6-8 August 2017 Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court in conversation with Judge M. Margaret McKeown, United States Court of Appeals and Chair of the ABA ROLI Board
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
Africa Group for Justice and Accountability member and The Gambia’s Chief Justice Hassan Jallow takes us behind the scenes of the group’s strategic meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, explaining how the Africa Group works for justice in Africa.
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.
Mohamed Chande Othman, former Chief Justice of Tanzania, discusses the legacy and impact of the ICTR in terms of what this means for the application of international criminal law in Africa.
Roland Adjovi, Conseiller en droit international pour le Programme mondial de lutte contre la criminalité maritime en Afrique d’Ouest à l’UNODC, analyse les interactions entre les mécanismes judiciaires nationaux, régionaux et internationaux. Il revient également sur les différents instruments juridiques tels que le Protocole de Malabo, la Cour Africaine des Droits de l’Homme et des Peuples, la Cour pénale internationale et les tribunaux hybrides. Roland Adjovi, International Law Advisor for the Global Maritime Crime Programme in West Africa at UNODC, analyses the interplay between national, regional and international judicial mechanisms and their application in West Africa.
Mohamed Chande Othman on African states, the African Union and the ICC, and whether he sees more hope, or reasons to worry about the relationship between African states and the ICC today.
