General Statements on International Justice

Dr. Ben Ferencz, former Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Tribunal, giving a speech at the United Nations, has been a strong and vocal supporter of the ICC.

This section provides statements from notable individuals, academics, government and civil society representatives about international justice, the importance of the International Criminal Court as well as the role of the CICC in the Court's establishment.

Conference Reports and Declarations

Author		Date
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations	Consultative Conference on International Justice	Sept 2010

Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies	�The ICC and Complementarity�- Conference Summary	19 Sept 2009

CICC/ Grotius Centre/ Asser Institute	International Justice Day: Celebrating the 11th Anniversary of the Rome Statute	17 July 2009

Joseph F. Kamara	�Preserving the legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone: Challenges and Lessons learned in Prosecuting Grave Crimes in Sierra Leone�	26 May 2009

Justice R. Goldstone	Remarks by Richard Goldstone, Conferral of the MacArthur Award for International Justice	25 May 2009

International Prosecutors	The First Chautauqua Declaration	29 Aug 2007

Government and Inter-governmental Documents

Author		Date
Sweden	Closing remarks by the Prime Minister of Sweden, G�ran Persson, at the Stockholm International Forum: Preventing Genocide; Threats and Responsibilities (Stockholm, Sweden)	28 Jan 2004

Sweden	Opening remarks by the Prime Minister of Sweden, G�ran Persson, at the Stockholm International Forum: Preventing Genocide; Threats and Responsibilities (Stockholm, Sweden)	26 Jan 2004

USA	Intervention by US Ambassador of War Crimes Issues, Pierre-Richard Prosper, at the Stockholm International Forum: Preventing Genocide; Threats and Responsibilities (Stockholm, Sweden)	26 Jan 2004

Trinidad and Tobago	Statement by fomer President The Honorable Arthur N.R. Robinson on the Occasion of World Day for International Justice	17 July 2003

Timor Leste	Statement by the Noble Peace Laureate Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor Leste (New York, USA)	27 June 2002

Bosnia and Herzegovina	Statement by H.E. Ambassador Mirza Kusljugic, Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the UN, regarding the importance of the ICC	01 June 2002

Cambodia	Statement by H.E. Ambassador Sun Suon, Deputy Permanent Representative of Cambodia to the UN, regarding the importance of the ICC	01 June 2002

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ICC Statements and Reports

Author	Title		Date
		Joint Statement of the Prosecutors of the ICC, ICTY, ICTR and Special Court for Sierra Leone	27 Nov 2004

Quotes and Statements

Author		Date
Human Rights Defenders	Appeal in support of the International Criminal Court	01 Sept 2000

Emma Bonino, European MP	Call on EU to reject Article 98 agreements	16 Aug 2002

Benjamin B. Ferencz	Call to action for the ICC by Prof. Ferencz, Former Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor (New York, USA)	08 Apr 2002

Nobel Peace Laureates	Centennial Appeal for the prompt establishment of the ICC (Oslo, Norway)	10 Dec 2001

Kofi Annan, Adriaan Bos, Bernard Bot, Shirin Ebadi, Benjamin B. Ferencz, Philippe Kirsch, Roy S. Lee	Commemorative Messages on the Tenth Anniversary of the CICC	10 Feb 2005

Emma Bonino, Comisaria Responsible de la Ayuda Humanitaria, Pesca y Pol�tica de Consumidores	Conferencia Latinoamericana por la creaci�n de un Tribunal Penal Internacional permanente en 1998	11 Oct 1997

Dr. Richard Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and the first Chie	Distinguished public lecture entitled, "Preventing and Prosecuting Crimes Against Humanity in the 21st Century" (Abuja, Nigeria)	14 Feb 2005

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