***46º Foro Anual de la PGA y 4ª Asamblea Consultiva de Parlamentarios por los Océanos, 26-27 de marzo de 2026, Ciudad de México.*** REGÍSTRATE AQUÍ
- Sobre nosotros
- Programas y campañas
- Noticias y actividades
- Recursos
- Únase ahora
***46º Foro Anual de la PGA y 4ª Asamblea Consultiva de Parlamentarios por los Océanos, 26-27 de marzo de 2026, Ciudad de México.*** REGÍSTRATE AQUÍ
The United States is a signatory to the Rome Statute but has not yet ratified the Rome Statute. PGA however recognized very positive steps towards supporting the ICC by the US administration since 2009.
On May 17, 2017 the United States Embassy in Sudan reiterated that the United States opposes invitations, facilitation, or support for travel by any person subject to outstanding International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants, including President Bashir. See the full statement here.
On March 21st 2016 the United States Ambassador to the UN officially stated that "The decision today by a Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to convict Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, a former Vice President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), of war crimes and crimes against humanity, is a significant victory for international justice and a major advancement in the fight against impunity for crimes of sexual violence.”
The US Administration made it clear through this statement that it recognizes the ICC as an important tool in the fight against impunity for the most serious crimes and its important role in promoting gender justice.
On February 10, 2016, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, in conjunction with Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), the War Crimes Research Office of American University Washington College of Law, the Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court and American Bar Association-ICC Project, organized a congressional briefing titled: “Seeking Justice for Atrocities: How the International Criminal Court Could Advance Accountability in Iraq and Syria” at the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC. Read more here.
Chairman Royce, Rep. McGovern Urge Obama to Focus on Defeating Kony, LRA, August 7, 2013
PGA’s member in the United States, Congressman Jim McGovern (co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission), has proven his continued leadership through the bipartisan initiative that has urged President Obama to enhance international and regional coordination to end the Lord Resistance Army’s (LRA) threat, to apprehend its commanders including Joseph Kony and to ensure protection of civilian populations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, Central African Republic (CAR), and Sudan, as well as the end to child recruitment and conscription.
Parliamentarians from the PGA network in Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have expressed strong appreciation for the Congressman’s efforts to guarantee that the LRA threat is not forgotten and remains on the political agenda, constantly recalling the Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act. This is a classic example presenting how PGA Members globally connect to support each other.
This important initiative is also saving lives of the people in CAR as the AU-UN authorized military operation led by Ugandan troops assisted by one-hundred US Special Forces to pursue the LRA has indirectly blocked attacks of the Seleka rebels against civilians in the South Eastern section of the Central African Republic, the only part of the CAR not devastated by the Seleka, as reported by Christian Today.
Unfortunately, the efforts in CAR remain insufficient despite the presence of the 400 AU troops. Since April 2013, when the rebels took over the CAR, hundreds of children recruited for the confrontations and lawless militia have brought devastation and terror.
54 Members of PGA, both from government and opposition have been deposed from their parliamentary functions. Seven of them, including the Chair of the PGA CAR group, Hon. Pascal Djmasse and its Secretary Hon. Martin Wiguele went into hiding as their property was looted and their family members violently attacked. Those Members of Parliament from CAR, Members of PGA, have written to PGA calling on the PGA network for protection solidarity and support.
The Chair of the PGA International Council, Dip. Minou Tavarez Mirabal (Dominican Republic), has mobilized her Congress in the Dominican Republic to strongly condemn the coup d’état (see document from 29 April 2013 in https://www.pgaction.org/ilhr/rome-statute/central-african-republic.html) and the PGA secretariat has actively shared key information and appeals for protection with Governments and with the ICC, which has jurisdiction over the territory of this state party to the Rome Statute. The President of PGA, Mr. Ross Robertson, MP (New Zealand) has tabled a parliamentary Notice of Motion urging his government to take action at the United Nations and in other competent fora (see Parliamentary Notice of Motion on page 9) .
PGA is encouraging the international community to send a peace-keeping operation with the mandate to halt the recruitment of children, and a UN mission with the capacity to install mandatory demobilization and rehabilitation, and to address the causes of vulnerability for recruitment.
PGA’s network are working together and joining their forces in the fight against impunity. Congressman Jim McGovern brings hope to PGA Members in Africa and ensures that no country shall be forgotten and that the international community follows a zero-tolerance policy for the most serious crimes of concern to humankind. Hopefully, a forthcoming legislation on crimes against humanity currently under preparation by the State and Defense Departments, and soon to be submitted to Congress, will provide the right forum for discussion of the means to ensure effective protection against the most serious crimes under international law.
US Senate Resolution callings on Kenya to cooperate with the ICC and ensure witness protection, 23 April 2013, Motion by Senator Christopger Coons (D-Del)
The resolution issued in the context of the peaceful completion of the elections in Kenya,
(6) calls on the Government of Kenya to respect commitments to seek justice for the victims of political violence, including by honoring its obligations under the Rome Statute to cooperate fully with the International Criminal Court with regard to the three cases that remain before the Court slated to go to trial in 2013;
(7) calls on the Government of Kenya to ensure ICC witnesses are fully protected and not subject to interference but afforded the protections they deserve to ensure justice is served;.
A list of relevant events where the U.S. played a critical role, in addition to the evolution of the relation between the United States and the International Criminal Court.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
125 países forman parte del Estatuto de Roma de la Corte Penal Internacional. De ellos, 33 son Estados africanos, 19 son Estados de Asia y el Pacífico, 20 son de Europa oriental, 28 de 28 de América Latina y el Caribe, y 25 de Europa occidental y otros Estados. |
A list of relevant events where the U.S. played a critical role, in addition to the evolution of the relation between the United States and the International Criminal Court.
El 3 de junio de 2021, la Comisión de Asuntos Jurídicos y Políticos de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), celebró una importante “Sesión técnica de trabajo para el fortalecimiento de la cooperación con la Corte Penal Internacional.”
Por primera vez en la historia de PGA la Asamblea Consultiva se llevará a cabo virtualmente a través de la plataforma Zoom. Le pedimos que se registre con anticipación »
On 10 September 2020, PGA co-hosted a Panel Discussion on “Existing Legal Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes”, title of the new book of Professor Jennifer Trahan (New York University - NYU).
“The International Criminal Court exists because far too often, countries are unable or unwilling to punish authorities responsible for terrible crimes like massacres, torture and forced disappearance,” Rep. Jim McGovern said.
Contrary to the popular belief, the Rome Statute was effectively opened to the signatures by States on 18 July 1998, when the Final Act of the Rome Diplomatic Conference was signed.
On 15 March 2018, Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA), participated in the 10th Special Session of the Organization of American States (OAS) on the International Criminal Court (ICC), organized by the OAS Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs.
PGA is saddened by the death of Professor Dr. M. Cherif Bassiouni, one of the greatest legal scholars of our time.
In February 2016, PGA President, Dip. Minou Tavarez Mirabal (Dominican Republic) addressed the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the Organization of American States (OAS) at its regular high-level session on the International Criminal Court.
The briefing aimed at providing different views on the potential role that the ICC could play in fighting impunity of those responsible for committing international crimes in Syria, Iraq and other areas of the world affected by ISIS.
El 1 de septiembre de 2015, PGA organizado al margen de la cuarta Conferencia Mundial de Presidentes de Parlamento, titulado “El rol de los Parlamentos en la criminalización de guerras agresivas e ilícitas.”
Proposal for an annual high-level meeting in April of the “Group of Friends of the ICC” to highlight the importance of the ICC in relation to accountability, prevention and justice for victims.
PGA Members applaud US government’s renewed efforts to arrest Joseph Kony & Co. Press Releases News Center
On Aril 11, 2013, the Chairperson of the International Council of PGA addressed the Political and Juridical Affairs Committee of the Organisation of American States at its regular high-level session on the International Criminal Court. Dip. Minou Tavarez.
The aim of this dialogue was to improve the relationship between the ICC and the Security Council of the United Nations, and to assess how to overcome the challenges arising from this relationship in order to enhance the fight against impunity.
On March 10, 2011, PGA, represented by Board member Dip. Felipe Michelini (Uruguay), participated in the high-level segment of the 7th Special Session on the ICC
Hosted by the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations, and organized by PGA, a set of informal consultations with MPs on the key issue of Cooperation with the ICC took place in New York on December 6, 2010, opening day of the 9th ASP.
Diputado Sigfrido Reyes (Deputy Speaker , Legislative Assembly of El Salvador) intervenes on behalf of PGA sharing our position on the agenda items at the forthcoming Review Conference of the Rome Statute
On Friday, October 23, 2009 Mr. Stephen Rapp, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues briefed the Members of the Board and International Council of PGA on current US policy on accountability, international justice and the International Criminal Cou
On February 2007, Senator Raynell Andreychuck and Dr. David Donat Cattin, Director of the International Law and Human Rights Program of PGA, intervened at the ICC session held at the OAS
Es imperativo que el Estatuto de Roma sea ratificado universalmente para el buen funcionamiento de la Corte. Los parlamentarios deben garantizar que la CPI sea verdaderamente universal.
Creada por el Estatuto de Roma, la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) es el primer tribunal internacional permanente e independiente capaz de investigar y llevar ante la justicia a las personas que cometen las violaciones más graves del derecho penal internacional, el derecho internacional humanitario y los derechos humanos.
El Estatuto de Roma define los crímenes de su competencia y establece los principios y procedimientos generales de funcionamiento de la Corte. También esboza las obligaciones de cooperación de sus Estados Parte. Es imperativo que el Estatuto de Roma sea ratificado universalmente para el buen funcionamiento de la Corte. Los parlamentarios deben garantizar que la CPI sea verdaderamente universal.
Criteria and recommendations for parliamentarians to improve national nomination procedures for International Criminal Court judicial candidates.
La CPI es el primer y único tribunal permanente independiente con el mandato de investigar y enjuiciar a los máximos responsables de cometer crímenes internacionales, a saber, el genocidio, los crímenes de lesa humanidad, los crímenes de guerra y el crimen de agresión. Sus 18 magistrados, procedentes de todo el mundo y elegidos por un mandato de nueve años, desempeñan un papel fundamental a la hora de asegurar que se cumplen estas expectativas mediante la garantía de juicios justos y el dictamen de jurisprudencia autoritativa y de la más alta calidad.
La calidad de los magistrados de la CPI, por lo tanto, tiene una importancia fundamental para el rendimiento, la eficiencia y la eficacia de la Corte puesto que de ello depende el éxito a largo plazo de la CPI y del sistema del Estatuto de Roma en su conjunto. Bajo estos antecedentes, PGA ha elaborado este manual con el fin de establecer criterios y recomendaciones específicas para que los parlamentarios alienten a sus Gobiernos a mejorar los procedimientos nacionales de designación de candidatos a magistrados de la CPI y adopten buenas prácticas y requisitos para garantizar que estos procesos sean justos, transparentes y meritocráticos. El objetivo de un procedimiento de designación sólido es el de garantizar que sólo los candidatos a magistrados o juristas del más alto calibre figuren en la papeleta de votación.
A handbook aimed at assisting States in ratifying the Kampala Amendments, helping criminalize the most serious forms of the illegal use of force.
Es para nosotros un honor y un privilegio presentarles el Manual sobre la Ratificación e Implementación de las Enmiendas de Kampala al Estatuto de Roma de la Corte Penal Internacional.
Este Manual es producto de nuestros esfuerzos colectivos dirigidos a asistir a los Estados en la ratificación de las enmiendas aprobadas por consenso en Kampala—enmiendas que son fundamentales para el proceso de criminalización efectiva del uso ilegal de la fuerza en los asuntos internacionales.