UpRights Participates In The Virtual Seminar ‘Strengthening Domestic Capacity To Prosecute And Adjudicate International And Transnational Crimes In Africa’.
15-06-2021
On 14 June 2021, UpRights co-Founder, Valérie Gabard, participated in the virtual seminar ‘Strengthening Domestic Capacity to Prosecute and Adjudicate International and Transnational Crimes in Africa’.
The high-level seminar, organised by the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, the Asser Institute and the Antonio Cassese Initiative, followed a training course held in February 2020 in Arusha, Tanzania and an online training in March 2021. 17 judges and prosecutors from Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Niger participated in the series of lectures of the high-level seminar.
UpRights conducted an interactive exercise for the Judges and Prosecutors’ oriented around the type of international crimes committed by armed groups and defence and security forces in respective West African contexts. The training allowed the participants to apply challenges present in their respective jurisdictions. Participants working individually and in groups identified whether war crimes and crimes against humanity may have been committed. The focus of the exercise was around the prosecution of international crimes in the context of the fight against terrorism with a particular focus on sexual and gender-based violence.
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