AMICC (American NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court)
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The American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC) leads the civil society movement for full United States participation in the International Criminal Court.
With over 40 member and observer organizations, AMICC is a national coalition made up of US-based non-governmental organization
s that works to build support for the International Criminal Court
(ICC) in the United States
. AMICC is a program of the United Nations Association of the United States of America
.
The Coalition supports and promotes grassroots activity in support of the Court, including the formation of local alliances of individuals and organizations whose interests will be served and advanced by the ICC and by a positive US relationship with it. The member organizations include bar associations, women's groups, human rights organizations, religious organizations, veterans' groups, victims organizations, students and young adults, and others. These organizations may have sharply differing views on other political and social issues, but hold that the ICC expresses and implements values traditionally championed by the United States, including international justice and the rule of law. Together they work effectively to promote a Court which implements their common intense opposition to international atrocities and to holding accountable those most responsible for them.
LOCAL ALLIANCES
Arkansas
California
Los Angeles - ICC Alliance (ICCA)
San Francisco
Illinois
Chicago Alliance for the ICC (CAICC)
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Kentuckians for the ICC
Maine
Maine Alliance for the ICC (MAICC)
Minnesota
Missouri
St. Louis
New Mexico
New York
Brooklyn
Texas
Austin
Dallas
San Antonio
To inform others about some of the moral, ethical and religious considerations involved in the ICC, the Network holds frequent group meetings and plans events that will bring these issues to the attention of a wider audience. The issues that the group raises and decides upon will impact the role the court will play and the way it is perceived around the world. The following issues are among those that have been and will be discussed by the working group in their meetings as well as in their open events and dialogues:
moral, ethical and theological imperatives and the importance of the ICC as a powerful representation of these values; moral, political and ethical dimensions of impunity, reconciliation, and long term peace building; individual and collective healing in society; redressive justice relationships between confession, repentance, compensation and forgiveness issues of psychological and spiritual rehabilitation.
CURRENT MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
Al-Khoei Foundation
The American Humanist Association
Baha'is of the United States
Church World Service
Conference of Major Superiors of Men
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights of the American Jewish Committee
The Loretto Community
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
National Service Conference of the American Ethical Union
Presbyterian Church, USA
Religious of the Sacred Heart
Soka Gakkai International
Temple of Understanding
Unitarian Universalist Association
General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church
World Council of Churches
With over 40 member and observer organizations, AMICC is a national coalition made up of US-based non-governmental organization
Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization is a legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any government. The term originated from the United Nations , and is normally used to refer to organizations that do not form part of the government and are...
s that works to build support for the International Criminal Court
International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression .It came into being on 1 July 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the...
(ICC) in the United States
United States and the International Criminal Court
The United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court . The ICC is a permanent international criminal court, founded in 2002 by the Rome Statute to "bring to justice the perpetrators of the worst crimes known to humankind - war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide",...
. AMICC is a program of the United Nations Association of the United States of America
United Nations Association of the United States of America
The United Nations Association of the United States of America or UNA-USA is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to building understanding of and support for the ideals and work of the United Nations among the American people. Its education, policy and advocacy programs emphasize the...
.
Objectives
AMICC is a coalition of non-governmental organizations committed to achieving full United States support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the earliest possible US ratification of the Court's Rome Statute.The Coalition supports and promotes grassroots activity in support of the Court, including the formation of local alliances of individuals and organizations whose interests will be served and advanced by the ICC and by a positive US relationship with it. The member organizations include bar associations, women's groups, human rights organizations, religious organizations, veterans' groups, victims organizations, students and young adults, and others. These organizations may have sharply differing views on other political and social issues, but hold that the ICC expresses and implements values traditionally championed by the United States, including international justice and the rule of law. Together they work effectively to promote a Court which implements their common intense opposition to international atrocities and to holding accountable those most responsible for them.
CURRENT AMICC MEMBERS
- Advocates for Survivors of Trauma and Torture (ASTT)
- American Bar Association Section of International Law
- American Humanist Association (AHA)
- American Jewish Committee/Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights
- Amnesty International USA
- Baha'is of the United States
- Church World Service
- Citizens for Global Solutions
- Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC)
- Council for American Students in International Negotiations (CASIN)
- DePaul University College of Law International Human Rights Law Institute International Human Rights Law Institute
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Feminist Majority Foundation
- Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights)
- Human Rights WatchHuman Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Its headquarters are in New York City and it has offices in Berlin, Beirut, Brussels, Chicago, Geneva, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo,...
- Imani Works
- International Committee on Offensive Microwave Weapons
- International Federation of Women LawyersInternational Federation of Women LawyersThe International Federation of Women Lawyers , in Spanish Federacion Internacional de Abogadas , is an International Non-Governmental Organization that enhances the status of women and children by providing legal aid, legal literacy and education programs, and through advocacy, law reform,...
- Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
- Maryknoll Fathers, Brothers, Sisters and Lay Missioners
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
- National Lawyers Guild, International Committee
- National Service Conference of the American Ethical Union
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Presbyterian Church (USA)
- Unitarian Universalist Association
- United Church of Christ
- United Methodist ChurchUnited Methodist ChurchThe United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...
- United Nations Association of the United States of America
- Veterans for Peace, Inc.
- Washington Kurdish Institute
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), US Section
OBSERVERS
- Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism
- US Fund for UNICEF
- Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice
- Women's Bar Association of the State of New York
Local AMICC Alliances
AMICC's Local Alliances for the ICC advocate full U.S. participation in the ICC, and the earliest possible ratification of the Rome Statute. Through broad alliances of the legal, academic, human rights and faith-based communities, they coordinate activities in the support of the Court and act as a resource for those seeking information about the movement for the ICC.LOCAL ALLIANCES
Arkansas
California
Los Angeles - ICC Alliance (ICCA)
San Francisco
Illinois
Chicago Alliance for the ICC (CAICC)
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Kentuckians for the ICC
Maine
Maine Alliance for the ICC (MAICC)
Minnesota
Missouri
St. Louis
New Mexico
New York
Brooklyn
Texas
Austin
Dallas
San Antonio
The Faith and Ethics Network for the ICC
The United States Faith and Ethics Network for the International Criminal Court (US FENICC) is a coalition of religious and interfaith NGOs that examine the moral, ethical and religious considerations surrounding the Court. Religious organizations have a special role to play in raising awareness at the grassroots level and helping to shape the ICC. The Network promotes the ICC by disseminating information about the Court to respective religious, ecumenical, and ethical communities.To inform others about some of the moral, ethical and religious considerations involved in the ICC, the Network holds frequent group meetings and plans events that will bring these issues to the attention of a wider audience. The issues that the group raises and decides upon will impact the role the court will play and the way it is perceived around the world. The following issues are among those that have been and will be discussed by the working group in their meetings as well as in their open events and dialogues:
moral, ethical and theological imperatives and the importance of the ICC as a powerful representation of these values; moral, political and ethical dimensions of impunity, reconciliation, and long term peace building; individual and collective healing in society; redressive justice relationships between confession, repentance, compensation and forgiveness issues of psychological and spiritual rehabilitation.
CURRENT MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
Al-Khoei Foundation
The American Humanist Association
Baha'is of the United States
Church World Service
Conference of Major Superiors of Men
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights of the American Jewish Committee
The Loretto Community
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
National Service Conference of the American Ethical Union
Presbyterian Church, USA
Religious of the Sacred Heart
Soka Gakkai International
Temple of Understanding
Unitarian Universalist Association
General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church
World Council of Churches
See also
- United States and the International Criminal CourtUnited States and the International Criminal CourtThe United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court . The ICC is a permanent international criminal court, founded in 2002 by the Rome Statute to "bring to justice the perpetrators of the worst crimes known to humankind - war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide",...
- International Criminal CourtInternational Criminal CourtThe International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression .It came into being on 1 July 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the...
- International Criminal LawInternational criminal lawInternational criminal law is a body of international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetration. Principally, it deals with genocide, war crimes, crimes against...
- Command responsibilityCommand responsibilityCommand responsibility, sometimes referred to as the Yamashita standard or the Medina standard, and also known as superior responsibility, is the doctrine of hierarchical accountability in cases of war crimes....
- Criminal lawCriminal lawCriminal law, is the body of law that relates to crime. It might be defined as the body of rules that defines conduct that is not allowed because it is held to threaten, harm or endanger the safety and welfare of people, and that sets out the punishment to be imposed on people who do not obey...
- Human rightsHuman rightsHuman rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
- International lawInternational lawPublic international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...
External links
- Official website
- Coalition for the International Criminal Court, international counterpart to AMICC