Training of Trainers Programme on ICC & India, organized by ICC-India/Women's Research & Action Group.

Location: Mumbai, India

Contact Information: For more details, please contact ICC-India at iccindiacampaign@gmail.com

This event is hosted by CAD, an NGO member of the DRC Coalition for the ICC. Mr. André Laperrière, Executive Director of the Victims' Trust Fund, will be speaking.

Location: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Contact Information: For more details, please contact Louis Tshiyombo Kalonji, CAD Vice-Président, 00243 81 688 57 17, louistshiyombo@yahoo.fr or Eugène Bakama at bakama_eugene@yahoo.fr.

International Criminal Court Summer School is offered by the Irish Centre for Human Rights and offers students a detailed knowledge of the establishment of the Court, its applicable law, its structures and its operations. Lectures will also focus on universal jurisdiction and immunities.

Location: National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Contact Information: For more information, contact Michelle Farrell at iccsummercourse@hotmail.com

Seminar “La tipificación de los crímenes de competencia de la Corte Penal Internacional en el marco del ordenamiento penal común peruano” organized by ICRC and COMISEDH.

Location: Lima, Peru

Contact Information: For further information, contact comisedh@amauta.rcp.net.pe

The International Criminal Bar (ICB) in cooperation with the NGO Culture pour la Paix et la Justice, the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the local bars of Kinshasa and Lubumbashi are organizing meetings with key speakers and experts to discuss the role of Counsel before the ICC, legal aid for Counsel and the participation of victims.

21-23 June in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

25-27 June in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo

Location: Democratic Republic of Congo

Contact Information: For more information, go to http://www.bpi-icb.org/

Twenty Years of Criminal Justice Reform: Past Achievements and Future Challenges, organized by the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law is hosting its 20th Anniversary Conference, which will be a retrospective of the varied themes explored at the Society’s conferences over the last twenty years. The emphasis, however, will be on the future and ongoing challenges in criminal justice reform. The Hon. Chief Justice Lance S.G. Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia, will be the conference chair.

Location: Four Seasons Hotel - Vancouver BC Canada

Contact Information: For more information or to register, please contact secretariat@isrcl.org or +604 643 1252.

Upon the request of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), H.E. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) in cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the African Union (AU) will convene a high level Pan African Conference on The Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa. Experts participating in the meeting include H. E. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), H. E. Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, Talks and Chief Mediator and AU Special Envoy for the Darfur, H. E. Adama Dieng, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Prof. S. B. O. Gutto, Acting Chair of AFLA’s Governing Council and H.L. Justice Georgina T. Wood, first female Chief Justice of Ghana. The meeting will be addressed by His Excellency, John Agyekum Kufuor, President of the Republic of Ghana, and Chairperson of the Assembly of the African Union (AU). Discussed topics will include Power Sharing, Gender Crimes, and Alternative Forms of Justice. The conference will adopt a Plan of Action which will be used for advocacy and lobbying initiatives.

Location: MPlaza Hotel, Accra, Ghana

Contact Information: For further information contact AFLA at info@africalegalaid.org or +233 (0)21 660997.

The annual Top Summer School is designed for excellent young researchers of international law (PhD students in their first 4 years of doctoral studies). It will cover all main topics of the supranational penal system on three distinctive areas: substantive criminal law, procedural law as well as matters of legal policy. A maximum of 30 young researchers are selected for this Summer School.
Application deadline: April 30, 2007. The application form can be found on http://www.grotiuscentre.org/com/doc.asp?DocID=333

Location: The Hague, Netherlands.

Contact Information: For more information, please contact Ms. Mette Léons at mleons@campusdenhaag.nl

The 5th Summer School on International Criminal Law, organized by the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and the T.M.C. Asser Institute, will be taking place in The Hague. Invited speakers are professors of international law and practitioners from the ICTY and ICC. Law students and young professionals with an interest in international law are encouraged to attend. Participation is limited to 30 places.

Location: The Hague, The Netherlands

Contact Information: For more information, please visit www.grotiuscentre.org or e-mail Ms. Mette Leons at mleons@campusdenhaag.nl.
or +604 643 1252.

This 8th Hague Joint Conference on Contemporary Issues of International Law honors the centennial anniversary of the Hague Conference of 1907 with a line up of panels focusing on salient issues in international humanitarian law and criminal jurisdiction. The conference is organized by The American Society of International Law, The Netherlands Society for International Law, T.M.C. Asser Institute and the Foundation “The Hague Joint Conferences on International Law”.

Location: Steigenberger Kurhaus Hotel, The Hague, Netherlands

Contact Information: For more information see brochure, registration form and The Hague Joint Conferences website.

The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies (Leiden University, Campus The Hague), is hosting a lecture by the winner of The Hague Prize for International Law 2007, Prof. Cherif Bassiouni, Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, USA. Prof. Cherif Bassiouni is President Emeritus of the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University. The lecture will focus on the Pursuit of International Criminal Justice in the Face of Realpolitik and Other Obstacles.
Grotius Centre - Room 403 (4th floor) from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Location: Leiden University, Lange Houtstraat 5, The Hague, Netherlands

Contact Information: Please confirm your presence to Ms. Martine Wierenga at mwierenga@campusdenhaag.nl or by phone at 070.310.8606. For more information about The Hague Prize, please visit: http://www.denhaag.nl/thp