During the last five years, NPWJ has focused its worldwide campaign on raising public awareness on the ICC and has worked for the convening of the Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Rome. In 1996 and 1997, NPWJ launched two solemn appeals for the prompt establishment of the permanent Court. The petitions, signed by over 80 personalities, Heads of States, Nobel Laureates and world leaders from all over the world, contributed significantly to the successful finalization of the ICC Statute at the Rome Conference. The appeals were published in The International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, La Repubblica, El Pais, Il Messaggero and the Irish Times on the eve of the last session of the Preparatory Committee of the ICC Statute.

The "1997-1998 NPWJ International Campaign" was made of a series of regional conferences organized in conjunctions with Governments, international as well as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). All events saw the participation of local political leaders, legal experts, diplomats as well as representatives of the UN and the civil society; the proceedings of all meetings were published and disseminated at the UN during the ICC negotiations

.For the last two years, NPWJ has also promoted the establishment of an inter-group at the European Parliament called Amici Curiae, that has presented several resolutions regarding both legal and political aspects related to the establishment of the international Court. Since its foundation, NPWJ has published a quarterly in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Italian) to update politicians, diplomats and the public on the progress of the ICC negotiations and on the events of its international campaigns. In addition to that NPWJ also realized a series of legal publications in cooperation with the academic community: ISISC, Nouvelles Etudes Penales and the European Law Students Association (ELSA).

To secure a wide participation at the Rome Diplomatic Conference, NPWJ, through its Judicial Assistance Project (JAP), provided some 40 legal experts from all over the world to 13 Governments' delegations mainly developing Countries. All delegations helped by NPWJ eventually joined the so-called 'Like Minded Group' and voted in favor of the ICC Statute. The majority of these Countries have already signed the Rome Treaty for the establishment of the Court. In Cooperation with the Transnational Radical Party, the Rome negotiations were covered by a daily newsletters called Terra Viva and Notizie Radicali, and the plenary meetings were also broadcast live through the Internet on the TRP website.

On October 1998, during a conference at the United Nations Headquarters, NPWJ launched its "Ratification Now" campaign, an international endeavour to for the entry into operation of the ICC by the year 2000.

Since Summer 1998, NPWJ is following the situation in Kosovo with particular attention to the general human rights crisis. Purpose of the undertaking is to prepare a dossier on the violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). A 6-people team, mainly formed of former ICTY personnel, has visited twice the Balkans on a fact finding mission last Fall.

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