#ASP20 Civil Society Side Events
In the margins of the 20th ICC Assembly of States Parties (ASP), civil society organizations will organize a number of virtual side events.
Side events represent an opportunity to raise #NGOVoices around specific topics of mutual concern, including the Review of the ICC and Rome Statute system, situations under investigation or preliminary examination, ICC and ASP Elections, judicial and political developments related to the ICC and the ASP, and other issues related to the ICC and the Rome Statute system.
Find here all #ASP20 #NGOVoices side events:
Week of 29 November to 3 December 2021 1 December-
Independent Expert Review of the ICC: Civil Society Perspectives on Next Steps
Hosted by: Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Human Rights Watch (HRW), the ICC Project (American Bar Association) & The Netherlands, Sierra Leone, Chile, Poland, Finland, Switzerland.
The event will be in English, with simultaneous interpretation in French and Spanish
1 December, 17:30-18:30 CET / 11:30-12:30 EST
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Critical Analysis of Gender in International Criminal Law
Hosted by: Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice (WIGJ), the Representatives of Uruguay, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland to the Netherlands, the International Gender Champions.
1 December, 14:00 CET / 8:00 EST
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2 December
- Toward a Permanent Vetting Mechanism for ICC Elections
Hosted by: Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI) & Cyprus
2 December, 16:00-17:00 CET / 10:00-11:00 EST
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- Survivors’ pathways to accountability: legal avenues for South Sudanese survivors of conflict-related sexual violence
Hosted by: Legal Action Worldwide (LAW), The Netherlands
6 December, 16:00 CET/ 10:00 EST
7 December
- Myanmar: What's Next for International Justice Efforts following the Coup?
Hosted by: Fortify Rights, Legal Action Worldwide (LAW)
7 December, 11:00 CET
- Gender Sensitive Judging in International Criminal Courts
Hosted by: Africa Legal Aid (AFLA), Australia, The Netherlands, Uganda
7 December, 13:10-14:50 CET / 7:10-8:50 EST
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The Role of Parliamentarians in Promoting the Universality of the Rome Statute: The State of Play in Today’s ICC
Hosted by Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), The Netherlands, Republic of Korea.
7 December, 13:15-14:45 CET / 7:15-8:45 EST
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- Ecocide: a fifth crime defined
Hosted by: Stop Ecocide Foundation, Institute for Environmental Security, The Hague Peace Projects, Republic of Vanuatu
7 December, 18:30 CET / 12:30 EST
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- When Vetoes Prevent Accountability: a critical examination of blocking ICC referrals
Hosted by: Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), Canada, The Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the UN, the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the UN
8 December, 13:15-14:45 CET / 7:15-8:45 EST
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- Obstructing Justice and Promoting Impunity: Israel's Designation of Palestinian Civil Society Organisations as "Terrorist Organisations"
Hosted by: Al Haq, State of Palestine
8 December, 13:30-15:00 CET / 7:30-9:00 EST
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Paths to Justice and Accountability for Venezuela. Ongoing Initiatives by the International Community
Hosted by: Un Mundo Sin Mordaza, Defiende Venezuela, Organization of American States (OAS)
8 December, 13:45-14:45 CET / 7:45-8:45 EST
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- Specialized Units for Investigating and Prosecuting International Crimes and Crimes of the Past: Efforts for Addressing Impunity for Crimes in Syria
Hosted by: International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands
8 December, 14:00-16:00 CET / 8:00-10:00 EST
9 December
- Justice Must Happen for Gambia
Hosted by: Africa Legal Aid (AFLA), Uganda
9 December, 13:10-14:50 CET / 7:10-8:50 EST
- Justice for the Rohingya
Hosted by: No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), delegations of Bangladesh and the Gambia to the ICC
9 December, 13:30-14:30 CET / 7:30-8:30 EST
- Fighting Against Impunity for Gender-Based Crimes: A Policy Paper on Gender Persecution
Hosted by: MADRE and the Embassy of Sweden in the Hague
9 December, 18:00-19:00 CET / 12:00-13:00 EST
10 December
- Le mandat de la CPI face aux nouveaux défis tels que le terrorisme et la résurgence den coups d'états (The ICC’s mandate in the face of new challenges such as terrorism and the resurgence of coups d'état)
Hosted by: The African Francophone Coalitions for the ICC
10 December, 13:00-15:00 CET / 7:00-9:00 EST
- The Crimes against migrants and refugees in the context of the ICC Libya investigation
Hosted by: European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL), the Netherlands
10 December, 13:00-14:00 CET / 07:00-08:00 EST
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- Youth & Women looking for Justice in the MENA region (in Arabic)
Hosted by: Justice Call, Women's Regional Network on Prevention (WRNP), UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect
10 December, 15:00-16:30 CET / 9:00-10:30 EST
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Reforming national nomination procedures for ICC judicial candidates: from the IER report to action by the ASP
Hosted by: Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA,) Switzerland
10 December, 13:15-14:45 CET / 7:15-8:45 EST
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Week of 13 to 17 December 2021 13 December
- Towards the enforcement of the right to peace: Crimes against peace global campaign launch
Hosted by: Platform for Peace and Humanity
13 December, 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST
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14 December
- What is ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's Legacy
Hosted by: International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice (WIGJ), No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ)
14 December, 14:00-15:15 CET / 8:00-9:15 EST
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- Using digital technology for war crimes documentation and accountability
Hosted by: eyeWitness to Atrocities, Truth Hounds
14 December, 16:00-17:15 CET / 10:00-11:15 EST
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Ecocide, Business and Human Rights
Hosted by: Stop Ecocide Foundation, Ecocide Law Alliance
14 December 17:00-18:00 CET / 11:00-12:00 EST
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15 December
- Keeping It Real: Duterte's Drug War Slaughter and the ICC
Hosted by: DRCNet Foundation AKA StoptheDrugWar.org, Associazone Luca Coscioni, Filipino American Human Rights Alliance, Forum Droghe, Ecumenical Advocacy Network on the Philippines
15 December, 13:00 EST / 7:00 EST
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- Complementarity and the ICC: from preliminary examinations (Guinea, Colombia) to investigations (Sudan, Venezuela)
Hosted by: International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
15 December, 14:00-15:15 CET / 8:00-9:15 EST
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- Colloquium on the impact of illicit trade on Human Rights: the case of Syria
Hosted by: No Peace Without Justice, Euro-Syrian Democratic Forum, Budapest Centre for Mass Atrocities Prevention and the Sant'Anna School of Advance Studies
15 December, 16:00-17:30 CET / 10:00-11:30 EST
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16 December
- ASP Side-event on "Ecocide; from Amazonia to Oceania to The Hague: bringing voices together towards a common goal
Hosted by: No Peace Without justice (NPWJ), Seja Legal com a Amazônia (the Seja Legal Campaign)
16 December, 13:00-14:30 CET / 07:00-8:30 EST
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- Accountability for SGBC in Colombia: better understanding acts of a sexual nature to break the circular definition of sexual violence
Hosted by: Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice
17 December, 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST
link to follow the event
- Report on international crimes committed in Ukraine since February 2014: Preliminary findings
Hosted by: Platform for Peace and Humanity and the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
17 December, 17:00 CET / 11:00 EST
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