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23 November 2015
Worldhotel Bel Air, The Hague, Netherlands
Photos: Kris Kotarski, Wayamo Foundation.
The Wayamo Foundation launches the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability on the sidelines of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties at an event entitled “Africa and the ICC - Looking Back, Moving Forward” co-hosted by the governments of Botswana, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
The Africa Group for Justice and Accountability is an independent group of senior African experts on international criminal law and human rights, including political figures, members of international and domestic tribunals, and human rights advocates. The Group shall support efforts to strengthen justice and accountability measures in Africa through domestic and regional capacity building, advice and outreach, and enhancing cooperation between Africa and the International Criminal Court.
Speakers at the side event included Africa Group members:
• Femi Falana (Nigeria) Human rights activist and lawyer
• Hassan Bubacar Jallow (Gambia) Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
• Richard Goldstone (South Africa) Former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia
• Athaliah Molokomme (Botswana) Attorney General of Botswana
• Navi Pillay (South Africa) Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Fatiha Serour (Algeria) Director of Serour Associates for Inclusion and Equity
Not present in The Hague were group members:
• Betty Kaari Murungi (Kenya)
Independent Consultant on Human Rights and Transitional Justice
• Mohamed Chande Othman (Tanzania)
Chief Justice of Tanzania
• Abdul Tejan-Cole (Sierra Leone)
Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa.
The new group was launched as part of Wayamo's ongoing strategies aimed at improving the relationship between Africa and the ICC as well as strengthening complementarity through capacity building. Bettina Ambach, the Director of the Wayamo Foundation, which will act as the Groups’ Secretariat, described it as “an open and interactive forum where the concerns of African citizens and states can be heard.”
The Hague Summit on Accountability in the Digital Age will focus on safeguarding the role of the internet as a tool for personal, professional, and social engagement.
I4ADA is taking concrete steps to increase access to knowledge, evidence-based trust and measures to foster accountability. The goals are to facilitate transparency, a common understanding, and thus to promote a maximum sustainable net benefit for people and societies worldwide.
More info: i4ada.org
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Fotografie Erik Kottier
The Hague Summit on Accountability in the Digital Age will focus on safeguarding the role of the internet as a tool for personal, professional, and social engagement.
I4ADA is taking concrete steps to increase access to knowledge, evidence-based trust and measures to foster accountability. The goals are to facilitate transparency, a common understanding, and thus to promote a maximum sustainable net benefit for people and societies worldwide.
More info: i4ada.org
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Fotografie Erik Kottier
The Hague Summit on Accountability in the Digital Age will focus on safeguarding the role of the internet as a tool for personal, professional, and social engagement.
I4ADA is taking concrete steps to increase access to knowledge, evidence-based trust and measures to foster accountability. The goals are to facilitate transparency, a common understanding, and thus to promote a maximum sustainable net benefit for people and societies worldwide.
More info: i4ada.org
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Fotografie Erik Kottier
The Hague Summit on Accountability in the Digital Age will focus on safeguarding the role of the internet as a tool for personal, professional, and social engagement.
I4ADA is taking concrete steps to increase access to knowledge, evidence-based trust and measures to foster accountability. The goals are to facilitate transparency, a common understanding, and thus to promote a maximum sustainable net benefit for people and societies worldwide.
More info: i4ada.org
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Fotografie Erik Kottier
The Hague Summit on Accountability in the Digital Age will focus on safeguarding the role of the internet as a tool for personal, professional, and social engagement.
I4ADA is taking concrete steps to increase access to knowledge, evidence-based trust and measures to foster accountability. The goals are to facilitate transparency, a common understanding, and thus to promote a maximum sustainable net benefit for people and societies worldwide.
More info: i4ada.org
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Fotografie Erik Kottier
CREAW Kenya is currently holding a social accountability for action training in Machakos County with key stakeholders i.e. teachers, local administration and elders and religious leaders through the #ImarishaMsichana to equip them with the tools that will help in addressing teen pregnancies with effective strategies and resources that will address cultural gnomes in the communities and catalyze social change by building awareness.
#HerEducationHerFuture
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A building built by the Government of Uganda to house the mass grave for victims of the Mukura Massacre (September 2010).
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2021-06-08: On screen, (1st row, L-R) Theo Chiviru, Development & Governance enthusiast, Zimbabwe Patriot; Joe Powell, Campaigner for democracy and open government, Co-founder Kensington Against Dirty Money; Carina Sugden, Chief Governance Officer at African Development Bank Group; (2nd row, L-R) Maureen Kariuki ,Senior Regional Coordinator, Africa and the Middle East, Open Government Partnership (OGP); Evelynne Change,
Chief Governance Officer at African Development Bank; Abdoulaye Coulibaly, Director, Governance and Public Financial Management, AfDB; (3rd row, L-R) FLORENCE DENNIS, Division Manager at AfDB; Fred Kabanda ,Division Manager, Extractives at African Development Bank and an Official during the virtual Open government and Accountability Webinar.