The Importance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the Global Protection of Human Rights

To commemorate the UN Human Rights Day, the Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI) is organizing a conversation about the importance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the global protection of human rights with Rebecca A. Shoot, Esq, JD, MSc. the Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions, and member of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Mirsad Kriještorac, Senior Researcher at Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI).

When the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948, as the common standard for all member states, human rights officially became an important international relations issue for the first time. That is why we consider that day as the starting point for the common era of a global rule-based world with human rights at the core of it. All UN member states were to support human rights, defend them, promote them, advance them and consider them in their mutual interactions. Yet human rights are not only the concern of the states, as sometimes the states are the main violators of the human rights of the people that the state controls, rules over or wants to rule. For that reason, the global community recognized the need to further the protection of human rights by establishing a court to be an arbiter when human rights are at stake in the interactions among individuals, people and states.

The seminar will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, at 3:00 pm CET; 9:00 am EST; 2:00 pm UTC; 3 pm WAT and 4:00 pm EET.

Link to the Zoom event.

Speaker:
Rebecca Shoot (Citizens for Global Solutions, US)

Moderator:
Dr. Mirsad Kriještorac (Minority Issues Research Institute, SK)

This seminar is hosted by the Minority Issues Research Institute (MIRI) and will be recorded.