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Is the International Community Abandoning the Fight Against Impunity? Intervention by David Donat Cattin (Ph.D., Law), Secretary-General, Parliamentarians for Global Action; Adjunct Professor of International Law, NYU Center for Global Affairs

PGA together with the Government and Parliament of Ecuador, organized, a Technical Round-Table on the full implementation of the Rome Statute and the ratification of the Kampala Amendments by Ecuador.

PGA strongly supports the creation of a Special Criminal Court to fight against impunity for the international crimes committed since 2012 in the territory of the Central African Republic (CAR).

PGA, together with the National Assembly of Ecuador, convened a Technical Round Table on the Implementation of the Rome Statute

Statement of PGA members in the European Parliament in response to the request of Minister of of Foreign Affairs of Israel to stop funding-support to the International Criminal Court following the ratification of Palestine

PGA welcomes the transfer of Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the rebel movement, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and deputy commander to LRA chief, Joseph Kony, to the International Court

PGA earnestly applauds the arrest of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) ‘commander’ by US forces in CAR, Dominic Ongwen

PGA Activity in 2015

Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of Morocco, Rabat, Morocco. 04-05 December 2014.

Parliament of Morocco hosts 8th Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians for the ICC and the Rule of Law in Rabat

DAP vice chair M Kulasegaran to take up again the cause of Malaysia’s accession to the ICC.

Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) is pleased to announce that it will present the 2014 Defender of Democracy Awards to Ms. Navanethem Pillay (Navi) and Mr. Abdelaziz Bennani.

Parliamentarians celebrate the approval by the plenary of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica of the Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

While most Governments in the (MENA) Region have expressed support for the ICC and the fight against impunity for crimes under international law, few have taken the necessary steps to ratify or accede to the Rome Statute of the ICC.

On October 20th-21st, a mission from the Kurdish Regional Government of Iraq visited the International Criminal Court (ICC), other international legal institutions and relevant non state actors in The Hague.

MPs from MENA Region discuss the ICC and fight against impunity for international crimes

From 6 to 8 October, PGA conducted a field mission in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in the framework of the PGA Campaign for the Universality and Effectiveness of the Rome Statute system to generate political will for the fight against impunity

Parliamentarians around the world celebrate the ratification of the Kampala Amendments of the crime of aggression of the International Criminal Court by Spain, Latvia and Poland. This brings the number of ratifying states to 18.

PGA welcomes the decision of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to open a second investigation in CAR with respect to crimes allegedly committed since 2012.

Ratified EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is fresh impulse towards Rome Statute ratification by Ukraine