Dear Friend,

Warmest greetings from The Hague!

I’m Angela Mudukuti, a Senior Legal Advisor at the Global Justice Center, reaching out to share an update from the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties (ASP)! 

GJC President Akila Radhakrishnan and I had an energizing and enriching week here in The Hague for the 21st Annual ASP, where states meet to discuss and decide critical matters related to the ICC’s operations. Civil society organizations like GJC are present to monitor and advocate on a range of pertinent issues, and participate in and host events related to our work.

GJC has been working relentlessly to advance our strategy on feminist multilateralism to ensure the most equitable defense and advancement of human rights worldwide. To this end, we collaborated with partners in four exciting side events at ASP, covering important issues like vetting candidates for ICC elections, judicial selection and trial management at international criminal tribunals, intersectionality and slavery crimes, and options for justice in Myanmar. These discussions brought together a variety of actors, including feminist legal experts such as Patricia Sellers, the ICC Special Adviser on Slavery Crimes, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK President Tun Khin, and Karim Khan, Prosecutor at the ICC, to name but a few.