Press Release On The Role Of The Media In Understanding International Criminal Justice-Positive Complementarity: Prospects And Challenges
Mindful of the role played by the media in highlighting the plight of the victim communities in post conflict areas of “Greater Northern Uganda” , and on the grounding that the media plays a fundamental role in demystifying the work of the International Criminal Court while clarifying that of the International Crimes Division of the High Court of the Republic of Uganda, the Uganda Coalition on the International Criminal Court (UCICC), Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) synonym of Lawyers without Borders, the Field Outreach Unit of the International Criminal Court and the Media Association of Northern Uganda (MANU) found it critical to give media practitioners the opportunity to broadly deliberate on the concept of international justice and key victim oriented issues such as reparations and amnesty.
Press Release: Position Of The Newly Elected Chairperson Of The African Union on President Omar Al-Bashir Of Sudan
Uganda Coalition on the International Criminal Court and Human Rights Network have received with great concern and disquiet the news that during the meeting held by the newly elected African Union Commission Chair, Her Excellence Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma with the African former heads of State, Mozambique’s, Joachim Chissano, and Zambia’ Kenneth Kaunda, the former concurred with the position of the African Union on deferral or not to cooperate on effecting the arrest warrant issued against Al-Bashir the president of Sudan by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Press Statement On Commemorating Ten years of the ICC in Uganda
1st July, 2012
Kampala, 1st July 2012 – Today marks an important day for international criminal justice. The ICC Field Outreach Office, Uganda Coalition on the International Criminal Court (UCICC) and Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) join the rest of the world in celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Rome Statute and the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Since its establishment in 2002, the ICC has symbolised a commitment on behalf of the international community to end impunity for gross violations of human rights and provide justice to the victims of such crimes.
