Side Event at the Assembly of States Parties 2024: During the December 2-6, 2024, meeting of the ICC‘s Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, Netherlands, a side-event panel was held entitled “Reviewing the ICC’s Jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression: Addressing a Double Standard in International Law.”

It featured government ministers from Slovenia, Costa Rica and Germany, as well as Liechtenstein Ambassador Christian Wenaweser, and Professor Charles Jalloh, Professor Claus Kress, and Professor Jennifer Trahan. It was sponsored by Costa Rica, The Gambia, Liechtenstein, Germany, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Vanuatu, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, and the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression. It focussed on the need for the ASP to harmonize the jurisdiction in the ICC’s Rome Statute regarding all four Rome Statute crimes.