Platform for Peace and Humanity

About

Platform for Peace and Humanity is an international civic association promoting and advocating humanitarian values through international law, providing research-driven monitoring, consultancy and specialist expertise on international law, humanitarian and human security matters and advocating progressive development of international law in matters of international peace. 

 

 

The organisation’s work is further structured into programmes: South East Europe and Black Sea Region, Mediterranean, Central Asia, Towards the Enforcement of the Right to Peace and Ukraine. The three regional programmes publish analyses in the Peace & Security Monitor publication, with actionable policy recommendations supporting the Platform’s organisational objectives. The Ukraine programme focuses on accountability-related projects concerning the international crimes committed in Ukraine. 

 

 

The organisation also publishes a Weekly News Recap to raise awareness among the general and expert audience on the latest international justice and peace and security developments. 

The Platform is represented by the logo, which symbolises our main effort, ensuring sustainable peace in a world divided and torn apart by rising extremism, hate propaganda, armed conflicts and violations of human rights on a daily basis. To counter such a rising wave of injustice, we resort to international laws so we can become the voices of the voiceless and help those in need.

The logo was designed  in 2017 by an artist who fled due to persecution in Egypt during the Arab Spring events. That artist applied for international protection in Europe and was successfully represented in the legal proceedings by the Platform’s founder. As a sign of gratitude, he designed the logo for the Platform. We believe there is great symbolism behind this logo as it was drawn by a refugee seeking peace in this world. This logo will always remind us that sustainable peace can be achieved only by supporting the voices of the voiceless. 

Our Goals

Promoting and advocating humanitarian values through international law

Providing research-driven monitoring, consultancy and specialist expertise on international law, humanitarian and human security matters

Advocating progressive development of international law on matters of international peace

Origins

The Crime of Aggression Global Advocacy Campaign (2017)

The organisation was registered in late 2016 in Slovakia. With a strong focus on the progressive development of international law in matters of international peace, the Platform launched a global advocacy campaign to call upon States Parties to activate the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over the crime of aggression. 

On 21 September 2017, the International Day of Peace, the Platform started sending letters to States describing the added value of the crime of aggression in the architecture of international justice and international security.
The letter campaign finished at the 16th session of the Assembly of States Parties in New York from 4 to 14 December 2017. The Assembly of States Parties is the management oversight and legislative body of the International Criminal Court. It is composed of representatives of the States that have ratified and acceded to the Rome Statute, but also observer States that are not State Parties to the Rome Statute.
The agenda for the 16th session of the Assembly included, among others, the election of new judges or activation of the Court’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. In the resolution on the activation of the jurisdiction of the Court over the crime of aggression, the Assembly recognised the historical significance of the consensual decision at the Kampala Review Conference to adopt the amendments to the Rome Statute and decided to activate the Court’s jurisdiction as of 17 July 2018.
During the Assembly, our team approached various delegates and participants, exchanged views, discussed pressing issues in international criminal justice, and encouraged State Parties to ratify the Kampala Amendments.
To achieve sustainable peace, we consider the widespread ratification of the Kampala amendment a key issue. By outlawing acts of aggression and effectively prosecuting responsible leaders, we can foster justice and peace around the globe. As of March 2023, 45 States Parties to the Rome Statute have ratified or acceded to the Kampala amendment on the crime of aggression.

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