PARTICIPATE IN A CAMPAIGN TO BUILD LOCAL ICC SUPPORT

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• Educate the public and members of local government through the organization of public discussions, the distribution of fliers, demonstrations and meetings of local organizations

• Obtain local resolutions in support of the ICC

• Act to counter misunderstandings or misinformation in public discussions and media statements through media contacts and education campaigns on school campuses

• Conduct polling of local districts, for example by students in the political science departments of local universities, in forms compatible with national polls

• Work with local congressional and state legislative offices, meeting with Representatives and Senators about the ICC and its cases

• Integrate the ICC into the existing programs of alliance members

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ORGANIZE ICC EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS

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• Encourage religious celebrations of the ICC in connection with the Faith and Ethics Network for the ICC

• Organize local ICC events on days of remembrance and celebration, including:

  • January 27 Holocaust Remembrance Day (UN)

  • March 8 International Women's Day. Publicize the contribution the ICC has made to progressively defining and punishing sexual and gender-based violence. For materials on this topic, visit the website of the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice or download their factsheets:

    • Women and the ICC

    • Treatment of Sexual Violence in International Law

    • Gender Mainstreaming in the ICC Statute

    • Road to the ICC and Gender Integration in International Law

    • Definitions of Crimes of Sexual Violence in the ICC

  • April 6 Anniversary of start of Rwandan genocide

  • April 17 Anniversary of takeover by Khmer Rouge, beginning Cambodian genocide

  • April 18 Holocaust Remembrance Day (US)

  • June 4 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

  • July 17 International Justice Day

  • August 9 International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

  • Third Tuesday of September International Day of Peace

  • October 24 United Nations Day

  • November 20 Universal Children's Day

  • December 10 Human Rights Day

 

Please tell us about your events so that we can publicize them on our Event Calendar.