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Cape Verde signed the Rome Statute on 28 December 2000
Cape Verde deposited its instrument of ratification of the Rome Statute on 10 October 2011 becoming the 119th State Party to the Rome Statute. PGA Press Release on the ratification of Cape Verde.
The ratification process of Cape Verde was subject to the completion of the revision of the Constitution. A committee for the revision of the constitution of Cape Verde, chaired by José Manuel Andrade, MP from the governmental party and Joana Rosa, MP from the opposition and composed by 13 MPs was established on 4 February 2009. An ICC clause was finally adopted with bipartisan support into the Constitution of Cape Verde early 2010 and published on the Official Gazette on 3 May 2010 as Constitutional Law No. 1/VII/2010. Thereafter, the National Assembly of Cape Verde approved unanimously the ratification bill of the Rome Statute on 1 of July 2011.
The Penal Code amended through the Decree No. 4/2003 (18 November 2003) includes in its Title IV 'Crimes against International Community' some provisions covering genocide, and some modalities of crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
Constitutional Law No. 1/VII/2010 published on 3 May 2010, inserts two ICC-clauses in the Constitution of Cape Verde.
Article 11(8) states that "with a view to achieving an international justice that promotes respect for the rights of both individual human persons and peoples, and subject to the provisions governing complementarity and the other terms laid down in the Rome Statute, Cape Verde may accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court."
Article 37(5) indicates that existing restrictions to extradition from Cape Verde do not prevent the exercise of the jurisdiction by the ICC, subject to the provisions governing complementarity and the other terms laid down in the Rome Statute.
PGA initiated work on Cape Verde through the Speaker of the Parliament, Mr. Aristides Lima and other MPs since February 2001, at the Lisbon Lusophone Conference that PGA organised in the Assembleia da Republica of Portugal.
In 2003, Mr. Joao Batista Pereira, MP, Deputy Chair of the Legal & Constitutional Affairs participated in the II session of PGA's Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the ICC and the Rule of Law held in New York.
In March 2004, a delegation of parliamentarians from Cape Verde attended PGA's II Iberoamerican and Lusophone Parliamentary Conference that took place in Brasilia and committed to support the ICC through the Brasilia Parliamentary Declaration on the ICC.
Between 2009 and early 2010, PGA facilitated a bipartisan agreement within the committee for the revision of the constitution of Cape Verde and the plenary of Parliament, in particular via a letter that PGA drafted by Dep. Alessandro Forlani, MP (Italy) and Dep. Pierferdinando Casini, MP (Italy) Co-Presidents of the Centrist Democrats International appealing to the Cape Verde's leader of the opposition to join a constitutional consensus pro-ICC.
On 1 July 2011, the National Assembly of Cape Verde approved unanimously the ratification bill of the Rome Statute.
As a member of the African, Caribbean and Pacific community (ACP) and as signatory of the revised Cotonou Agreement between the ACP and European Union, Cape Verde has recognized the importance of the ICC as a mechanism for peace and international justice. It has committed to promote the ratification and implementation of the Rome Statute, to seek to take steps towards ratification and implementation of the Rome Statute and to fight against international crime giving due regard to the Rome Statute.
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Reportedly in 2004, Cape Verde signed with the United States an executive agreement of non-surrender of individuals to the ICC. It is not confirmed whether this international agreement was ever ratified by the Parliament as required by domestic law.
PGA continues engaging MPs to ensure the ratification of the APIC, the adoption of adequate legislation to cooperate with the ICC and to ensure the operation of the principle of complementarity and the prevention of ICC crimes, and to promote the ratification of the 2010 Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute.
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124 países forman parte del Estatuto de Roma de la Corte Penal Internacional. De ellos, 33 son Estados africanos, 19 son Estados de Asia y el Pacífico, 19 son de Europa oriental, 28 de 28 de América Latina y el Caribe, y 25 de Europa occidental y otros Estados. |
On 3 and 4 July 2019, the National Assembly of the Gambia hosted over 40 participants, representing more than 15 African States, to participate in the Working Group on the Fight against Impunity in Africa.
News broke today that the Government of South Africa has notified the United Nations Secretary General of its intention to withdraw from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
On 5 February 2002, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jaime Gama, deposited Portugal’s instrument of ratification at UN Headquarters, making Portugal the 51st country to ratify the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court (ICC)
The President of the Parliament of Portugal, Dr. Antonio de Almeida Santos, opened the “Conference on ICC Ratification in Lusophone countries” on Monday, 19 February 2001 in the Senate Hall of the Congress in Lisbon.
Es imperativo que el Estatuto de Roma sea ratificado universalmente para el buen funcionamiento de la Corte. Los parlamentarios deben garantizar que la CPI sea verdaderamente universal.
Creada por el Estatuto de Roma, la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) es el primer tribunal internacional permanente e independiente capaz de investigar y llevar ante la justicia a las personas que cometen las violaciones más graves del derecho penal internacional, el derecho internacional humanitario y los derechos humanos.
El Estatuto de Roma define los crímenes de su competencia y establece los principios y procedimientos generales de funcionamiento de la Corte. También esboza las obligaciones de cooperación de sus Estados Parte. Es imperativo que el Estatuto de Roma sea ratificado universalmente para el buen funcionamiento de la Corte. Los parlamentarios deben garantizar que la CPI sea verdaderamente universal.
La CPI es el primer y único tribunal permanente independiente con el mandato de investigar y enjuiciar a los máximos responsables de cometer crímenes internacionales, a saber, el genocidio, los crímenes de lesa humanidad, los crímenes de guerra y el crimen de agresión. Sus 18 magistrados, procedentes de todo el mundo y elegidos por un mandato de nueve años, desempeñan un papel fundamental a la hora de asegurar que se cumplen estas expectativas mediante la garantía de juicios justos y el dictamen de jurisprudencia autoritativa y de la más alta calidad.
La calidad de los magistrados de la CPI, por lo tanto, tiene una importancia fundamental para el rendimiento, la eficiencia y la eficacia de la Corte puesto que de ello depende el éxito a largo plazo de la CPI y del sistema del Estatuto de Roma en su conjunto. Bajo estos antecedentes, PGA ha elaborado este manual con el fin de establecer criterios y recomendaciones específicas para que los parlamentarios alienten a sus Gobiernos a mejorar los procedimientos nacionales de designación de candidatos a magistrados de la CPI y adopten buenas prácticas y requisitos para garantizar que estos procesos sean justos, transparentes y meritocráticos. El objetivo de un procedimiento de designación sólido es el de garantizar que sólo los candidatos a magistrados o juristas del más alto calibre figuren en la papeleta de votación.
Es para nosotros un honor y un privilegio presentarles el Manual sobre la Ratificación e Implementación de las Enmiendas de Kampala al Estatuto de Roma de la Corte Penal Internacional.
Este Manual es producto de nuestros esfuerzos colectivos dirigidos a asistir a los Estados en la ratificación de las enmiendas aprobadas por consenso en Kampala—enmiendas que son fundamentales para el proceso de criminalización efectiva del uso ilegal de la fuerza en los asuntos internacionales.