UGA School of Law to host conference on children and international criminal justice

UGA School of Law to host conference on children and international criminal justice
UGA Today, 09 Oct 2014

The University of Georgia School of Law will host a conference titled "Children and International Criminal Justice" Oct. 28 in the school's Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom. Starting at 9:15 a.m., there will be a public plenary session that will include a panel discussion followed by the keynote address by International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. The afternoon program will consist of closed workshop sessions.
"Children are a central concern of international criminal justice," said Diane Marie Amann, conference organizer and the holder of the law school's Woodruff Chair in International Law who also serves as a special adviser to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor in relation to children in and affected by armed conflict. "Both the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court have recently returned convictions for the recruitment and use of children in combat. Furthermore, the Rome Statute has importantly defined other international child-related crimes: killings, sexual violence, and other harms to children, their families and their homes; trafficking; attacks on schools and hospitals; and denial of access to humanitarian aid."
Experts in attendance will be academics and legal professionals from international organizations such as UNICEF and the Office of the Special Representative to the U.N. Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, in addition to nongovernmental organizations including Human Rights Watch, the International Center for Transitional Justice, the International Committee of the Red Cross, No Peace Without Justice, Save the Children and the Carter Center. The discussions will assist the special adviser to advise the Office of the Prosecutor, in the process of its development of a Policy Paper on Children.
 

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