Why Africa?
PGA members across the African continent constitute the largest segment of the PGA global membership and played a fundamental role in the national decision-making processes that led most of their countries to join the Rome Statute system. United by the imperative to end impunity for atrocity crimes that have caused unspeakable suffering in many corners of the African continent, and inspired by the vision of the Rome Statute and by the principles of humanity and solidarity, PGA Members held meetings at the regional or sub-regional level.
PGA members from Africa have consistently been the largest “regional” group attending the Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians on ICC and the Rule of Law in the last 15 years, in which they firmly called for more investigations and prosecutions by the ICC in respect of atrocity-crimes’ situations within Africa, in the face of the inability or unwillingness of national prosecutorial authorities to conduct genuine proceedings against the persons allegedly most responsible of international crimes falling under the Court’s complementary jurisdiction.
