• Mr. Nasser Amin – Lawyer and General Director of the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession and Coordinator of the Arab Coalition of NGOs for the International Criminal Court

• Ms. Amal Clooney – Lawyer, Human Rights Activist and English Writer

• Dr. Vitit Muntarborn, current member of the Muntarborn Panel (Thailand), is a professor of law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and the UN expert on human rights in North Korea.
• Mr. Said Benarbia, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).

• Professor Dr. / Yehia El Gamal, Professor and Head of the Public Law Department at Cairo University, former Dean of the Faculty of Law – Cairo University, and Attorney at Cassation
• Counselor / Asem Abdel Jabbar – Vice President of the Egyptian Court of Cassation
• Counselor / Farouk El Kilani – Former President of the Jordanian Court of Cassation
• Counselor / Ahmed Mekki – Vice President of the Egyptian Court of Cassation
• Counselor / Yehia El Rifai – Former Vice President of the Egyptian Court of Cassation and Honorary President of the Egyptian Judges Club
• Professor Dr. / Abdul Hussein Shaaban – Head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, London Branch – and General Coordinator of the Iraqi Network for Human Rights Culture and Development

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• Professor / Sherif Bassiouni Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome 1998)
• Mr. / Nasser Amin – Lawyer and General Director of the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal
• Profession and Coordinator of the Arab Coalition of NGOs for the International Criminal Court

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• To view the Beirut Declaration for Justice document

Beirut Declaration of Justice

On the sidelines of the first Arab Justice Conference, which was organized by the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession in the Lebanese capital Beirut during the period from 14 to 16 June 1999, a special meeting was held between Arab non-governmental organizations to study the mechanisms for forming an alliance of Arab non-governmental organizations in order to establish the court, and in response to the recommendation of the general session held within the activities of the conference, which concluded with the necessity of establishing an Arab organization in order to promote the idea of ​​the court and address the relevant authorities in the Arab countries in order to sign and ratify the Rome Statute establishing the court… The participants decided to establish the Arab Alliance of Non-Governmental Organizations in order to establish the court… In this context, the Coordinating Committee for the Alliance was formed, which included the organizations mentioned in the following table:

1- Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession – Egypt

2- Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies – Egypt

3- Legal Studies and Information Center – Egypt

4- Amnesty International (Tunisia Branch) – Tunisia

5- Kuwait Lawyers Association, Women’s Issues Committee – Kuwait

6- Civil Society Forum – Yemen

7- Moroccan Organization for Human Rights – Morocco

8- Palestinian Center for Human Rights – Palestine

9- Democracy Development Group – Egypt

10- Egyptian Organization for Human Rights – Egypt

11- Arab Commission for Human Rights – Syria “Headquartered in France”

12- Moroccan Organization for Human Rights – Morocco

13- Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights (LAW) – Palestine

14- Yemeni Writers and Authors Union – Yemen

15- Balance “Law Group for Human Rights, and the International Institute for Women’s Solidarity” Jordan

16- Arab Archives Foundation – Jordan

17- Alternative Development Studies Center – Egypt

18- Jordanian Jurists Association – Jordan

19- Algerian League for Human Rights – Algeria

20- Arab Institute for Human Rights – Tunisia

21- Yemeni Studies and Research Center – Yemen

22- Salah Al-Hujailan Consulting Office – Saudi Arabia

The tasks of the Coordination Committee were determined in light of several axes, the most important of which was developing an action plan for the Alliance that included at that time issuing publications and brochures and organizing the necessary workshops to provide a complete picture to Arab public opinion about the importance of establishing the International Criminal Court…

The Alliance’s objectives and strategy:

• Calling on Arab governments to ratify the Rome Statute.
• Coordinating the efforts of Arab non-governmental organizations with the aim of creating a public opinion supporting the establishment of the International Criminal Court.
• Informing citizens, civil society institutions and political parties about the importance of the Court and its role.
• Calling on Arab jurists to discuss the Court’s papers and study how to benefit from them at the Arab level.
• Supporting the media and information aspect for non-members of the Alliance regarding the Court.