Film screening: War and Justice
On 18 September 2024 in Mexico City, on the occasion of the Annual Conference of the International Bar Association (IBA), the IBA Human Rights Law Committee, in partnership with the IBA War Crimes Committee, the Mexico Bar Association (Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México) and the IBA Foundation, hosted a screening of War and Justice, a documentary about the International Criminal Court (ICC). The screening offered unprecedented access to the late Ben Ferencz (prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials), ICC prosecutor Karim Khan and past ICC prosecutors Luis Moreno Ocampo and Fatou Bensouda.
The film screening kicked off with a networking reception with canapés and other refreshments. Following the screening, the Human Rights Law Committee hosted a Q&A and panel discussion with the ICC’s first prosecutor, the film’s directors and international human rights and humanitarian law practitioners.
John Balouziyeh and Elsa Sage Wyllie, officers of the IBA Human Rights Law Committee, and Arturo Pueblita, President of the Mexican Bar Association, offered welcoming remarks, which were followed by a panel moderated by Jonathan Hafetz, Founder of the Law on Film Podcast and officer of the IBA Human Rights Law Committee.
The following noted experts in international criminal and human rights law joined the panel:
- Federica D’Alessandra, Director, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security;
- Mark Ellis, Executive Director, IBA;
- Michele Gentile and Marcus Vetter, Co-Directors, War and Justice;
- Baroness Helena Kennedy, Director, IBA Human Rights Institute; and
- Steven Rapp, Senior Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice.
The organisers would like to thank the IBA Foundation for its financial support and the Mexican Bar Association for its logistical support.