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Ghana: Annan Wins Another Prize
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Accra Mail (Accra)
26 March 2008
Posted to the web 26 March 2008
Ghanaian-born former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan continues to receive honours from a grateful world. Honouring Mr. Annan at the conferral of a new MacArthur Award, his successor, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the acceptance of the principle of the responsibility to protect stood out as the culmination of his predecessor's tenure.
"In his decade at the helm, he stood particularly tall for his contributions to international justice - fighting to end impunity, to advance the rule of law, to protect the weak and vulnerable," Mr. Ban said as Mr. Annan was accorded the inaugural International Justice Award by the MacArthur Foundation at a dinner last week.
One hundred and six countries have ratified the Rome Statute that sets up the ICC, the independent, permanent court that tries people accused of the most serious crimes, such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Late last year Judge Philippe Kirsch, the ICC President, called for those countries that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Rome Statute to do so, saying the court, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, was already deterring crimes and improving the chances for sustainable peace in some countries.
The responsibility to protect is a doctrine that holds States responsible for shielding their own populations from genocide and other major human rights abuses and requires the international community to step in if this obligation is not met.
UN News Centre/ADM
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