Events and lectures offer the opportunity to draw from the well of expertise of scholars and practitioners who have given lectures, focusing on various aspects of parliamentary development.
This side event analysed the main problems hindering States from joining the ICC, with examples of successes as well as challenges experienced, elucidated from the perspective of Parliamentarians from four countries.
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As part of the 20th Assembly of States Parties, Parliamentarians for Global Actions (PGA) co-sponsored a side-event with Canada, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations and the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, on the use of the veto power to block referrals to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and how it is impeding ...