On International Justice Day, we mark the anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court: the world’s first permanent international criminal tribunal.

In doing so, we pay tribute to the vision and commitment of all those individuals who have advocated, and continue to advocate, for justice to be more than an abstract ideal, for national and international courts to bring to trial those alleged to be responsible for serious violations of international law, and for States to protect their citizens.

The President of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Judge Theodor Meron, delivered today remarks at the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, held at the Potočari Memorial in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and paid his respect to its victims and their families.

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) unveiled the cornerstone for its new premises in Arusha yesterday at a ceremony officiated by H.E. President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of the United Republic of Tanzania. The ceremony was attended by the Chief Justice of Tanzania, Justice Mohamed Chande Othman, and a number of other national, regional, and local dignitaries. The Tanzanian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mr. Mahadhi Juma Maalim (MP), Mr. Stephen Mathias, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Mr.

Today marks the completion of a comprehensive transfer of physical judicial records in all closed cases of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) into the custody of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT). The materials transferred include exhibits, filings, transcripts and audio-visual tapes of judicial proceedings.

At the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in The Hague, Justice Hassan B. Jallow, Prosecutor of the ICTR and the MICT, gave a keynote speech at a strategic meeting of supporting States for an international convention on mutual legal assistance for international crimes.

Justice Hassan B. Jallow, Prosecutor of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), attended and gave a keynote speech at the international conference on the research process, documentation and prosecution of genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina held in Sarajevo on 11 and 12 June 2015 and jointly organised by the Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide and the Mother’s Action of the Srebrenica Zepa Enclave.

Joining the worldwide events marking this year’s International Archives Day, the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) has subscribed today to the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Archives (Declaration), becoming the first United Nations institution to sign this Declaration at the management level.

The Prosecutor of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT / Mechanism) and International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Justice Hassan B. Jallow, today presented his latest bi-annual report on the work of the Mechanism and the ICTR to the United Nations Security Council.

Today, the President of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), Judge Theodor Meron, updated the United Nations Security Council on the work and progress of the Mechanism in the past six months.

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) joins in commemorating the 21st anniversary of the Rwandan genocide that took the lives of a reported one million men, women and children between April and July 1994.