Petras Auštrevičius
Member of the European Parliament
Biography
Mr Petras Auštrevičius is a Lithuanian politician, diplomat and a member of the European Parliament since 2014 (re-elected in 2019). He serves on the EP Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) for his second term. Mr Auštrevičius acts as a coordinator for the Renew Europe group in the EP Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE). He is a chair of the European Parliament's Delegation for relations with Afghanistan for the second term already, since 2014. He is European Parliament's standing rapporteur for Belarus (since 2019) and Eastern Partnership. From 2001 to 2002, he was a Chief Negotiator for Lithuania's membership to the European Union. Mr Auštrevičius is a co-founder and first chairman of the Liberals Movement of the Republic of Lithuania. He was also a President of the European Federalist movement in Lithuania.
Speaker session
Putting IHL at the heart of external action: Ensuring accountability
Aquarium
Building on the first European Humanitarian Forum, as well as on the UNGA high-level event on accountability for sexual violence and other violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), this session continues the discussion on the means to improve monitoring of violations against IHL.
The session will discuss how the EU ensures that IHL is at the heart of its external action, and how EU Member States best can promote IHL. In addition, the session will evaluate how the ICC as well as preventive measures supported under ECHO’s Programmatic Partnership with the ICRC can promote IHL compliance in the current global context.
Piet Heirbaut
Director General for legal Affairs, Belgium
Speaker session
Putting IHL at the heart of external action: Ensuring accountability
Aquarium
Building on the first European Humanitarian Forum, as well as on the UNGA high-level event on accountability for sexual violence and other violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), this session continues the discussion on the means to improve monitoring of violations against IHL.
The session will discuss how the EU ensures that IHL is at the heart of its external action, and how EU Member States best can promote IHL. In addition, the session will evaluate how the ICC as well as preventive measures supported under ECHO’s Programmatic Partnership with the ICRC can promote IHL compliance in the current global context.
Robert Andrew PIPER
Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Solutions to Internal Displacement Executive Office of the Secretary-General
Organisation
UN
International organisation
Speaker session
Putting IHL at the heart of external action: Ensuring accountability
Aquarium
Building on the first European Humanitarian Forum, as well as on the UNGA high-level event on accountability for sexual violence and other violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), this session continues the discussion on the means to improve monitoring of violations against IHL.
The session will discuss how the EU ensures that IHL is at the heart of its external action, and how EU Member States best can promote IHL. In addition, the session will evaluate how the ICC as well as preventive measures supported under ECHO’s Programmatic Partnership with the ICRC can promote IHL compliance in the current global context.