is an international committee of parliamentarians, mayors and citizens whose main goal is to support the creation of an international system of justice.

Campaign objectives

- To establish an International Criminal Court as a new mechanism to guarantee justice;

- To develop and reform existing international organisations;

- To support the activities of the existing Ad Hoc Tribunals on the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda;

- To verify the application of human rights in the legislations of member states of the United Nations.

Background

Since 1993 NPWJ, with the support of the Transnational Radical Party, has played a prominent role in the creation of the ad hoc criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia and in the development of numerous international campaigns for the creation of a permanent criminal court.

NPWJ, along with several others NGOs, actively campaigned to fix 1998 as a date for convening the Diplomatic Conference which would establish the International Criminal Court, to extend the mandate of the Preparatory Committee charged with preparing the statute of the Court, and to ensure that the utmost is done to arrest and bring to justice those persons indicted by the ad hoc tribunals of former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

In 1996 NPWJ launched an International Appeal

to the members of the UN signed by more

than thirty statesman and opinion makers

from all over the world.

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