Past Events

On 22 March 2019, Navi Pillay, Africa Group for Justice and Accountability (AGJA) Member and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mohamed Chande Othman, AGJA Member and former Chief Justice of Tanzania and Hassan Bubacar Jallow, AGJA Chair and Chief Justice of The Gambia met with Ambassador Mercy Yvonne Debrah Karikari, Secretary to the cabinet of the government of Ghana.

On 17 April 2019, the Wayamo Foundation, in partnership with the Ugandan Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), held the 4thAnnual Joan Kagezi Memorial Lecture in Kampala. The event was organised with the financial support of the European Union.

Following on from six previous workshops on “Strengthening Justice and Accountability in Nigeria” held over the course of 2017 and 2018, the Wayamo Foundation and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy will organise a training workshop for civil and military investigators, prosecutors and legal practitioners in Abuja from 24-26 June 2019.

High level retreat and strategic Network meeting in Nairobi In order to help enhance and build the capacity of East African investigators and prosecutors to address trafficking crimes, the Wayamo Foundation organised a high-level retreat on 29 July for the heads of their anti-trafficking units of Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania and the countries of the Horn of Africa. On 30 July Wayamo organised a strategic meeting of the recently established “Network of Heads of Public Prosecutions and Criminal Investigations…

To supplement and sustain their ongoing capacity-building efforts in Nigeria, the Wayamo Foundation and the International Nuremberg Principles Academy held the first of two international criminal law courses with a training-of-trainers (ToT) component. The objective of the ToT programme is to support and further equip selected institutions with the necessary skills in and knowledge of international criminal law to pass on to their network of relevant legal actors around Nigeria. Click here for the summary report and here for the pictures. 

The Wayamo Foundation hosted a side event at this year’s Assembly of States Parties to interrogate and debate the timing and duration of decision-making at the International Criminal Court. The event, ‘It’s about time – revisiting the timing and duration of decision-making at the International Criminal Court’, took place on 3 December 2019 at the World Forum. Click here for the event summary and here for the pictures. 

Reviewing the record, forging forward: international criminal justice in Africa The Wayamo Foundation, in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and with the NRF SARChi Chair in International Constitutional Law, University of Pretoria, will be organising an international justice symposium at the University of Pretoria. Click here for more information.