The International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties (ASP) is meeting this week in The Hague — its 14th session. On the agenda (and here) are a number of issues, some going to the core of the Court’s work others more in the nature of administrative necessities, including:
- State cooperation (Friday), based upon 66 recommendations by the Bureau
- Complementarity (today)
- Increasing the efficiency of the Court (Tuesday)
- The adoption of the 2016 budget (being sought in the range of €139 million (a 7% increase from 2015)) and several elections, including for the board of the Trust Fund for Victims
- The annual promulgation of an omnibus resolution
- Potential amendments
In terms of side events, participants will discuss:
- Strengthening financial investigations at the ICC (hosted by Liechtenstein)
- A number of events on victims’ rights, including an important new study of victims’ participation by the Berkeley Human Rights Center
- Palestine and the ICC (Palestine and several NGOs, including the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI))
- Civil society fact finding (Philippines & OSJI)
- Fair trial process (Kenya)
- Africa and the ICC (co-hosted by Botswana)
- A number of events on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)
- Towards activating the aggression amendments, which with Georgia’s ratificationnow have 26 ratifications (Liechtenstein)
- Activating the Independent Oversight Mechanism in the Rome Statute (Kenya)
- A number of events on the ongoing catastrophe in Syria
Read the full post at Just Security.
- Publication Type:Other Writing
- Publication Date:11/19/2015