Friday




		21st September 2007, Friday evening, 4:00 – 9:00 pm Opening Address, 4:00 – 4:10 pm Barbara Lochbihler, Secretary General, amnesty international, German section 1. Keynote Speaker, 4:10 – 4: 30 pm ICC at work Georg Witschel, Director General, Head of Legal Department and Legal Advisor, German Foreign Office 2. Keynote Speaker, 4:30 – 5:00 pm AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE PROSECUTION’S WORK AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Fatou Bensouda, Deputy Prosecutor (Prosecutions) of the International Criminal Court, The Hague Discussion, 5:00 – 5:30 pm Break 1. Panel: The need for increased political support of the ICC, 5:45 – 7:30 pm Chair: Marianne Heuwagen, Director, Human Rights Watch, Berlin Office Repeating the success of Rome? - Outlook on the review conference Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, Chair of the Human Rights Committee, German Parliament Successes and failures on the way to universal ratification of the Rome Statute David Donat Cattin, Director of Programmes, Parliamentarians for Global Action, USA Is US attitude towards the ICC shifting? Golzar Kheiltash, Campaign for International Justice, USA The impact of the ICC on the conflicts in Uganda and Sudan Annette Weber, Research Unit Middle East and Africa, German Institute of International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany Reception, Foyer of the Berlin Parliament, 7:30 – 9:00 pm