Time to Step Up at the ICC: No Time to Trim the Saile

Critical Conversations on Human Rights: The Promise Institute Podcast

Listen as Kate Mackintosh talks with Richard Dicker, Ambassador Michael Imran Kanu and Professor Diane Marie Amman about a new report from Richard Dicker on the future of the ICC, the current Independent Expert Review and the upcoming election of a new Chief Prosecutor.

Richard Dicker was the Promise Institute Senior Fellow and lecturer in law at UCLA Law in Spring 2020. He is perhaps better known as Director of Human Rights Watch’s International Justice program, from its founding in 2001 to 2022.

Ambassador Michael Imran Kanu is the Deputy Permanent Representative for Legal Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations in New York, where he is known to be extraordinarily active in issues of international law. Among other things, Ambassador Kanu coordinates the African Group (Expert Level) in New York on the ICC independent expert review process.

Professor Diane Marie Amann is the Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law. A dual Irish-US citizen, she has served since 2012 as International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s Special Adviser on Children in & affected by Armed Conflict, and helped research and draft the Policy on Children that the ICC Office of the Prosecutor published in 2016. (She is taking part in this podcast in her personal capacity.)