The Political Economy Series Institute for the Scientific Study of Society based at the headquarters of the SACP in collaboration with the COSATU Policy Unit will be hosting lectures series on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the idea behind it and its workings.

This examination of the ICC comes at the time when there are serious questions and considerations about the Court, including withdrawal from it, by African states.

‎The ICC is biased, and has so far ignored all violations of international peace and justice and the crimes committed under regime change campaigns of the United States and its Western European allies. It has also ignored crimes against humanity committed by the Israeli state, and its regime of voluntary justice is tantamount to selective justice or no justice at all. This is one view, which further argues that the ICC has mainly focused its prosecution on Africa. In contrast, there is another view, that the ICC epitomises the system of international justice that the world needs.

Dr Alex Mezyaev will present two lectures focusing on the ICC, its institutional character, inner workings and the real agenda that it is implementing.

Professor Mezyaev  is  Head of Department of International Law, Law Faculty, from the University of Management TISBI, Kazan, Russian Federation.  Prof Mezyaev is also the Editor-in-Chief of Kazan Journal of International Law and International Relations.

Dates: 2 and 10 June 2016
Time: 17h00
Venue: COSATU House, 110 Jorissen Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg

Contact Co-ordinators
Alex Mashilo: 082 9200 308
Baby Nhlapo‎: 082 506 2569

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