International Justice Day-2020 observed as a virtual event

The International Justice Day is observed on July 17 as an effort to recognize the emerging system of international criminal justice. It may be recalled that it was in 2010, at the Review Conference of the Rome Statute held in Kampala (Uganda), the Assembly of State Parties decided to celebrate 17 July as the Day of International Criminal Justice.

Since 201o, each year, events to promote international criminal justice are held across the world. However, this year the virtual events are being held due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on gatherings.

Here are some important statements

made by those who had been associated with observance in the past.

International Justice Day should be an embrace of imperfection rather than some kind of fetishisation of purism.

~Mark Drumbl

Accountability is as a prerequisite for peace, stability and sustainable development based on the effective protection of human rights.

-Margareta Cederfelt

without the rule of law and justice, we are dominated by brute force, power, and war.

~William Pace

The Court needs to do better. It needs to review its past performance, ask itself some hard questions and make some hard choices so it can work more effectively and efficiently.

~Emma Bonino