The Africa Centre of Worldwide Prison Justice (ACICJ) has on Thursday, September 30, opened a two-day coaching programme on Worldwide Prison Regulation and Justice for legislation college students, attorneys, judges and individuals with particular curiosity within the topic.
The programme, held on the Moot Courtroom of the Ghana Institute of Administration and Public Administration (GIMPA) Regulation School, is among the many programmes the centre organises in its quest to struggle impunity on the international, regional and nationwide ranges via training and the dissemination of correct info relating to the Worldwide Prison Regulation and Justice regime typically, and the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) particularly.
Director on the ACICJ, Dr Kwaku Agyemang-Budu stated it’s about time Ghanaians took eager curiosity in Worldwide Prison Regulation due its relevance.
“The thought is that that is an space of legislation that’s necessary as a result of once you have a look at the historical past of worldwide felony legislation, you’d realise we now have solely been reactionary in bringing to guide perpetrators of probably the most severe crimes solely after they’ve occurred, then you may start to understand why worldwide felony legislation is necessary”, he stated.
Like earlier programmess organised by the centre, this 12 months’s is facilitated by prime officers of the ICC and different Worldwide Prison Regulation specialists from Africa.
Senior Trial Lawyer on the ICC, Jean-Jacques Badibanga, Director of Programmes on the Institute of Human Rights and Improvement in Africa, Edmund Foley and Worldwide Cooperation Adviser, Officer of the Prosecutor- ICC, Dahirou Sant-Anna, are among the many facilitators for the two-day coaching.
Day one of many programme focuses on the historical past of Worldwide Prison Regulation and Justice, the authorized foundation or justification for the institution of the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) and processing a case earlier than the ICC.
Day two will have a look at the position and rights of events earlier than the ICC, the position of victims in proceedings earlier than the ICC and the position and contribution of the Belief Fund for households, Human Rights, Humanitarian legislation amongst others.
Individuals, most of whom are legislation college students from the varied Schools of Regulation throughout the nation and the Ghana Faculty of Regulation (GSL) are wanting ahead to having an educative encounter.
About ACICJ
The Africa Centre of Worldwide Prison Justice (ACICJ) is a Analysis and Advocacy Centre, devoted to rising and growing Worldwide Prison Regulation and Justice on this planet typically, and in Africa particularly. The ACICJ has been on the forefront of the worldwide struggle in opposition to impunity since its institution in Could 2017. By way of its many programmes and initiatives, the ACICJ has turn out to be a focus for analysis, scholarship and coaching in Worldwide Prison Regulation and Justice and the position of the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) therein.
By P.D Wedam|3news.com|Ghana
