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09 Jan From Policy to Practice: Operationalising Environmental Justice
...ambitious vision that could catalyse a long-awaited shift in how the OTP investigates and prosecutes such cases. More importantly perhaps, the Policy has the potential to foster investigations and prosecutions of environmental harm at the domestic level, consistent with the principle of positive complementarity. However, translating this vision into practice at both the national and international levels requires overcoming significant legal, institutional and practical challenges, which the Policy partially acknowledges. Uncharted Legal Territory The current legal landscape remains largely unexplored. Environmental harm often unfolds over years or even decades, crossing...10 Jan Guest Post: When Should the ICC Call It Quits?
...strategic recommendation has ever been provided to my Office, and neither have there been any discussions resulting in concrete solutions to the problems we face in the Darfur situation.” It seems reasonable to assume that her reference to “the problems we face” includes not only the lack of arrest warrant enforcement, but also the lack of cooperation and denial of access that has plagued the Court’s Darfur investigation. As Sarah Nouwen details in her excellent book on the ICC and complementarity, the Sudanese government has refused all communications with the...
21 Apr ICC Sanctions Symposium: The Unprecedented Attack Against the ICC Prosecutor–The Pitfalls of Being a National of a ‘Less-Powerful’ State
[Satang Nabaneh is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, and the Founder and Executive Director of Law Hub Gambia. She currently pursues research interests including international human rights law and monitoring mechanisms, democratization in Africa, and Gambian constitutional law.] On September 2, 2020, the Trump administration announced that the United States had designated the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, and the head of the Office of the Prosecutor’s Jurisdiction, Complementarity, and Cooperation Division (JCCD), Phakiso Mochochoko, for sanctions. These...
22 Mar Law, Not War: Why Cuba Should Join the International Criminal Court in an Effort to Avert American Aggression
...want to insulate itself from ICC scrutiny and demonstrate good faith with respect to international criminal law, it could immediately release all remaining political prisoners not involved in covert operations for the United States, as it did in January 2025. It could also signal that it will not only join the ICC but also cooperate closely with the Court. History suggests that states that engage in genuine and constructive cooperation with the ICC are rarely targeted by the institution because of the Court’s emphasis on positive complementarity, meaning that the...13 Jul Events and Announcements: 12 July 2020
...the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following audio lectures to the AVL’s podcast: Professor Concepción Escobar Hernández on “El Tribunal Internacional del Derecho del Mar” (in Spanish) and Professor Sarah Nouwen on “Complementarity” (in English). The Audiovisual Library of International Law is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and can also be accessed through the preinstalled applications in Apple or Google devices, or through the podcast application of your preference by searching “Audiovisual Library of International Law”. If you would like to post an announcement on Opinio...
16 Mar SCSL Symposium: Did the Special Court for Sierra Leone Work?
...national capacity, particularly for our law enforcement and legal professionals, to investigate and, where appropriate, prosecute those alleged to have committed crimes under international law; and it has contributed to restoring confidence in the institutions of State and the rule of law. Capacity building is of critical importance for the principle of complementarity: at the time the Special Court was established, Sierra Leone was willing but unable to address those crimes. We were fortunate to have the support of the international community in establishing the Court to assist us to...
25 Jul All Roads Lead to Rome: Strengthening Domestic Prosecutions of Businesses through the Inclusion of Corporate Liability in the Rome Statute
...Several reasons were offered for this non-inclusion. Most notably, it was argued that the proposal to include corporations in the Rome Statute would detract from the focus of the Statute on individual criminal responsibility and that the absence of a recognised standard of corporate responsibility across all states would make the principle of complementarity, the cornerstone of the Rome Statute, unworkable. Twenty years later, is this still the case? The answer offered by this article is two-fold. From a descriptive point of view, it points to signs of a growing...06 Apr The Advantage for Palestine of a Slow Preliminary Examination
...authorise a formal investigation. Art. 18, which in certain circumstances requires the OTP to defer to state investigations of specific suspects, also does not apply until the OTP has decided to formally investigate (whether proprio motu or on the basis of a state referral). And Art. 19, the basic complementarity provision, does not permit a state to challenge admissibility until there is a specific case pending and does not permit a suspect to challenge admissibility (which includes jurisdiction) until a warrant for his arrest or a summons for his appearance...