Video summaries of the panel discussion on the impact of the work of the ICC on victims and affected communities
The Registrar of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Madame Silvana Arbia, participated yesterday in a panel discussion on the impact of the work of the Court on victims and affected communities. Discussions focused on participation of victims, protection of victims and witnesses, the role of outreach and the Trust Fund for Victims.
Video summaries of the panel are now available on the ICC Youtube Channel: part 1 – part 2 .
The discussion was opened with a presentation by Ms Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, followed by the screening of a video honouring victims of atrocities committed during conflicts. Besides Ms Arbia, speakers also included Ms Binta Mansaray, Registrar of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and former chief of its Outreach Section; Carla Ferstman, Executive Director of the NGO Redress; Ms Elisabeth Rehn, President of the Board of Directors of the Trust Fund for Victims of the ICC; Ms Justine Masika Bihanba of the NGO Synergie des femmes pour les victimes de violence sexuelle in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; David Tolbert, President of the International Center for Transitional Justice and former Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The discussions were moderated by Mr Eric Stover, Director of the University of California, Berkeley Human Rights Center.
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