JCLU took several actions towards the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC). To commemorate the execution of the Roman Code, JCLU held a regular meeting entitled “The preparations made towards the establishment of the ICCE There, one of the JCLU members, Mikiko Otani, introduced the discussions done at the ICC Preparation Committee and Miho Tsujii, who belonged to the “Women's Causus demanding justice among genders,Ereported about the viewpoints of “gender justiceEconsidered essential for the ICC.
Also in November of the same year, JCLU made several presentations at the symposium “Possibilities and challenges of the ICCEheld at Keisen Jogakuen University. Presentations were made by Dr. Claus Kress (ex delegation member for Germany), Vahida Nainar (ex-representative of the Women's Caucus), Yasushi Higashizawa (Secretary General of the JCLU), Makoto Teranaka (Secretary General of the AI Japan) and Professor Akira Maeda. The participants of the symposium demanded that Japan immediately join the Roman Code, and that civil society should take on active roles towards the establishment of the ICC.