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Chief Justices of the World receive copies of the
Earth Constitution The World Constitution and Parliament Association was again a major presence at the 10th International Conference of Chief Justices of the World that took place December 12-14, 2009 in Lucknow, India. Approximately 20 WCPA activists from various countries (and a number of cities in India) came to Lucknow to promote the Earth Federation among the justices and participants. They personally gave all the justices copies of the Earth Constitution in Hindi, English, French, or Spanish, depending on their native language. Copies of the Constitution were also available in Esperanto for those who wished to have one. The Justices assembled in Lucknow also voted a resolution demanding a “World Parliament” and the beginnings of a genuinely democratic government for the people of Earth.
Earth Federation to be a Presence at the Upcoming
ICC
Review Conference
Between 31 May and 11 June 2010, the first Review Conference on the Rome Statute that guides the operations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be held in Kampala, Uganda. This meeting is to be distinguished from the annual meetings of the Assembly of States Parties: the nations who have signed the treaty empowering the ICC. The Review Conference will consider amendments and elaborations of the Rome Statute as recommended by various nations in the Assembly of States Parties. The Provisional World Parliament has studied some of the excellent statutes of the ICC (such as its statutes on human rights, its penal code, and its rules of procedure and evidence) and rewritten them in the language of a true, constitutionally empowered court. In other words, rather than stating that the Court will “request” of a national government that it turn over a suspect for trial, a true court issues a binding warrant for arrest. A true court has the power of mandamus: the court order. The ICC as it now exists remains hamstrung by the system of sovereign nation-state that has thus far empowered it. Dr. Eugenia Almand and Dr. Glen T. Martin intend to be present for this review conference in order to show the justices and nations supporting the ICC how to truly empower the work of the court. The court should encourage the members of the Assembly of States Parties to reflect on affiliating themselves with the Earth Constitution under which the ICC can be empowered as one bench of the World Supreme Court. The host for the ICC review conference in Kampala, head of the Uganda Supreme Court, Hon Justice Benjamin Odoki, supports the work for Earth Federation and has already read documents sent to him by WCPA. He and one member of the ICC present in at the 10th Annual Conference of Chief Justices of the World in Lucknow (December 2009)said they would welcome a WCPA presence in Kampala. At the very least this will be the opportunity for the nations in the Assembly of States Parties to become more aware of the Earth Constitution as a viable option for creating a lawful world order.
WCPA to Offer Seminars on the Earth Constitution
in
Costa Rica
The Association of Lawyers in San Jose, Costa Rica, and other groups of concerned world citizens, will be hosting seminars on the Earth Constitution and the Earth Federation Movement January 14th and 15th, 2010. Dr. Reinhart Ruge from Mexico, Honorary President for Life of WCPA, and Dr. Glen T. Martin from Virginia, Secretary-General of WCPA, will rendezvous in Costa Rica in early January to meet with officials, concerned leaders, and to conduct these seminars. The Institute on World Problems and WCPA have held seminars in many locations around the world with the purpose of helping leaders understand the immense problems faced by the world in the light of their solution within a truly democratic Earth Federation. The seminars in Costa Rica are part of this on-going educational program.
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