19 August 2022, 13:00 London time, 19:00 Bangkok, 08:00 New York
Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yNg29BF8TjqQYCEj2oT9ig
On 20 August 2021 Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) made a Declaration under Article 12(3) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Statute that it accepts the jurisdiction of the court. The acceptance of the declaration could pave the way to the ICC prosecuting perpetrators of atrocity crimes in Myanmar. The ICC has already opened an investigation relating to the Rohingya crisis in 2017, but this does not cover crimes committed since Myanmar’s failed military coup in February 2021.
While the ICC has acknowledged receipt of the NUG Declaration it has taken no further steps, which has left a serious accountability gap for the alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes being committed in the context of the junta’s armed conflict with the ethnic armed groups and in what UN human rights experts have called “a brute force terror campaign against its own people”.
To coincide with the first anniversary of the NUG’s ICC Declaration, the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP) is hosting a webinar on why the ICC must take action on Myanmar. The event will coincide with the publication of a legal opinion commissioned by MAP that sets out the ICC’s obligations to accept the NUG’s Declaration that has been endorsed by a group of leading international legal experts.
Panelists will include:
- Aung Myo Min, Minister for Human Rights, National Unity Government, (NUG) Myanmar
- Justice Richard Goldstone, Founding Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
- Wai Wai Nu, Founder and Executive Director, Women’s Peace Network
- Antonia Mulvey, Founder and Executive Director, Legal Action Worldwide (LAW)
- Dr Ralph Wilde, Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL), University of London
The webinar will be moderated by
Chris Gunness, Director of the Myanmar Accountability Project