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When accountability becomes a crime: protecting human rights defenders in the Age of Lawfare
December 4, 2025 - 13:15 - 14:45
Side event to the 24th Assembly of State Parties of the ICC
Thursday, 4 December 2025 | 13:15 – 14:45 | Yangtze 2
Panellists:
– Shawan Jabarin, Director General of Al-Haq;
– Raji Sourani, Founder and Director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights;
– Issam Younis, Director General of Al Mezan Center for Human Rights;
– Antônia Pereira de Sousa, Senior Special Assistant to the Registrar of the ICC;
– Niccolò Figà-Talamanca, interim Convenor of the CICC.
Moderator: Rev. Father Albert C. Alejo S.J., Board Member, No Peace Without Justice
Co-sponsors: No Peace Without Justice; Al-Haq; Al Mezan Center for Human Rights; Palestinian Centre for Human Rights; Coalition for the International Criminal Court; Women’s Initiatives for
Gender Justice; FIDH; Amnesty International; EUmans, Holistic Empowerment for Development (H.E.D) on behalf of 5 Ethiopian CSOs – African Initiatives for a Democratic World Order
(AIDWO), Exodus Charity Organization (ECO), Vision Ethiopian Congress for Democracy (VECOD), Human Rights and Humanitarian Development Initiatives (HRHDI); Robert F. Kennedy
Human Rights; Union for Civil Liberty; Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada; Human Rights Now; Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society; Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group; International Centre for
Justice for Palestinians; World Without Genocide; Platform for Peace and Humanity; Centre Marocain pour la Loi et la Paix.
State co-sponsors: the State of Palestine.
Note: Interpretation will be available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.