World Day for International Justice: History, Significance, and Quotes

World Day for International Justice, also referred to as Day of International Criminal Justice or International Justice Day, is an international day celebrated throughout the world on July 17 as part of an effort to recognize the emerging system of international criminal justice. July 17 is the date of the adoption of the treaty that created the International Criminal Court. On 1 June 2010, at the Review Conference of the Rome Statute held in Kampala (Uganda), the Assembly of State Parties decided to celebrate 17 July as the Day of International Criminal Justice.

Every year, people around the world use this day to host events to promote international criminal justice, especially support for the International Criminal Court.

What is the International Criminal Court (ICC)?

The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression.
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The Court is participating in a global fight to end impunity, and through international criminal justice, the Court aims to hold those responsible accountable for their crimes and to help prevent these crimes from happening again.

​​The Court cannot reach these goals alone. As a court of last resort, it seeks to complement, not replace, national Courts. Governed by an international treaty called the Rome Statute, the ICC is the world’s first permanent international criminal court.

The Aim of International Justice Day:

The aim of this day is to unite everyone who wants to support justice as well as promote victims rights. It is to help prevent serious crimes and those that put the peace, security and well-being of the world at risk.

 

International Justice Day Quotes:

Truth never damages a cause that is just - Mahatma Gandhi

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. - Nelson Mandela

There is no freedom without justice. - Simon Wiesenthal

Justice is doing for others what we would want to be done for ourselves. - Cary Haupen, International Justice Yicaion

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. - Albert Einstein

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. - Pope John Paul II

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due. - Domitus Ulpian

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. -Francis Bacon