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Film Screening: War and Justice
18 September 2024, 1800-2030 CST
Event location:
Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México
Av. P.º de la Reforma 2654, Lomas Altas, Miguel Hidalgo, 11950 Ciudad de México, CDMX, México
Participation in this film screening event is free, but registration is required. No certificate of attendance will be issued and we are unable to provide visa invitation letters to support your visa application.
On the occasion of the Annual Conference of the International Bar Association (IBA) in Mexico City, the IBA Human Rights Law Committee the IBA War Crimes Law Committee, in association with the Mexican Bar Association (Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México) and the IBA Foundation, will host a screening of War and Justice, a documentary about the International Criminal Court (ICC). The film offers unprecedented access to the late Ben Ferencz (prosecutor, Nuremberg Trials), ICC prosecutor Karim Khan and past ICC prosecutors Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Fatou Bensouda. The official trailer can be viewed here.The film screening will kick off with a networking reception with canapés and other refreshments. Following the screening, the IBA Human Rights Law Committee will host a Q&A and panel discussion with the ICC’s first prosecutor, the film’s directors and international human rights and humanitarian law practitioners.
Programme:
- 1800-1815: Networking and refreshments reception
- 1815-1830: Welcome remarks John Balouziyeh, United Nations, Erbil; Treasurer, IBA Human Rights Law Committee
- 1830-2000: Film Screening: War and Justice (in English with Spanish subtitles)
- 2000-2030: Film discussion and audience Q&A Moderator:
- 2030: Close
Arturo Pueblita, President of the Mexican Bar Association
Elsa Sage Wyllie, Wyllie Law, Vancouver, British Columbia; Events Officer, IBA Human Rights Law Committee
Jonathan Hafetz, Founder of the Law on Film podcast, Newark, New Jersey; Membership Officer, IBA Human Rights Law Committee
Panellists:
Federica D’Alessandra, Director of the Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security; Member, IBA War Crimes Committee Advisory Board
Mark Ellis, Executive Director of the International Bar Association
Michele Gentile and Marcus Vetter, Co-Directors of War and Justice
Baroness Helena Kennedy, Director of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute
Luis Moreno Ocampo, First Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Steven Rapp, US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (ret.)