Multimedia exhibition and other ICC side events in Kampala during the Review Conference
KAMPALA, Uganda, May 29, 2010/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On 2 June, 2010, a multimedia installation titled “The road from Rome to Kampala” will open at the ICC field office in Kampala, Uganda. This event is part of a series of parallel activities organised by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the context of the Review Conference of the Rome Statute, which will be held in Kampala from 31 May to 11 June.
During the opening of the exhibition, statements will be made by the ICC President, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, the President of the Assembly of the States Parties, Ambassador Christian Wenaweser, the Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United States, Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, the Deputy Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda and the ICC Registrar, Silvana Arbia.
The photo and video exhibition, which remains open until the end of the Review Conference, is literally a road to be travelled to follow the journey international criminal justice has taken from Nuremberg onwards.
Two other events organised in cooperation with the International Bar Association (IBA) will take place at the “People’s Space” On 4 June, the Registrar, Silvana Arbia, will participate in the panel discussion “Calling African Female Lawyers: The ICC needs you”, a campaign that was recently launched in The Hague. The Registrar will outline the ICC’s efforts to increase the number of female counsel practicing before the Court. Other panellists include Botswana’s Attorney-General Athaliah L. Molokomme and Judge Elizabeth Ibanda-Nahamya from the Special War Crimes Division of the High Court of Uganda.
On 9 June, also in cooperation with the IBA, the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence (OPCD) will hold a moot court based on a hypothetical case scenario (The Prosecutor v. Deran Mostol) modeled on the ICC confirmation of charges proceeding. The hearing will be presided over by Judge Elizabeth Ibanda-Nahamya. The other members of the jury are Bruce Kwalisimia Kyerere, President of the Uganda Bar Association, and Lorraine Smith, head of the IBA ICC Monitoring Programme. The moot court will be preceded by an OPCD introduction concerning the nature of the confirmation of charges hearing at the ICC. After the hearing, representatives from the OPCD, IBA and the participants will be available to respond to questions from the audience.
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