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29 Apr Upcoming Events: April 29, 2012
...cost but you must register (you can do that here). The Salzburg Law School is hosting a summer session, Enforcing International Criminal Law Through the Complementarity Regime of the Rome Statute! Demand and Reality, August 5-17, 2012. Applications are due no later than May 15, and the application can be found here. To all ILA members, the 75th Biennial ILA Conference will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, August 26-30, 2012, and the early-bird deadline has been extended until May 18th. The program can be found here and registration information here....
13 Apr ICC Prosecutor Symposium: The Appointment of the Next ICC Prosecutor Is Not a Forum for Career Transition
...to non-cooperation have yielded little in the way of results. Putting the “International” into the ICC, while ensuring a multi-dimensional vision of complementarity Needless to say, the Prosecutor must carry out their role independently of any political interference and without allowing political considerations to play an overriding role when determining case selection or strategy. In the highly politicized context of international criminal justice, however, they must navigate the political realities to get the job done, whilst ensuring that the Court’s sources of funding and cooperation do not determine its outlook...
23 Feb Efforts to Protect the ICC from Sanctions: Dialogue between States Parties and Non-States Parties
...of engaging in constructive dialogue with Non-States Parties for strengthening the fight against impunity, and further enhancing the effectiveness and universality of the Court. Among States Parties, only New Zealand adopted a more transparent stance regarding endorsement of the pragmatic significance of dialogue. Signalling certain aspects of the process, this statement described the dialogue as an opportunity for deliberating sensitive issues such as ‘complementarity, prioritisation, universality, and possible amendments.’ While most of the African and Latin American States Parties were silent concerning the dialogue, the State of Palestine expressed their...
27 Mar Putin Arrest Warrant: International Law and Perceptions of Double Standards
...was an unprecedented step by the Prosecutor. In other situations where civil society and victims have advocated for the ICC prosecutor to exercise preventative complementarity or issues statements of this kind particularly in desperate contexts of extreme atrocity (including by states parties to the ICC Statute), the court has not been as forthcoming. This is likely because of the ICC’s interest in maintaining strong and cooperative relationships with such states and their influential supporters. With Russia not being party to the Rome Statute of the ICC, the Court presumably does...30 Oct Huge Win in the Zimbabwe Torture Docket Case
...subsidiarity…. [T]he principle of non-intervention in the affairs of another country must be observed; investigating international crimes committed abroad is permissible only if the country with jurisdiction is unwilling or unable to prosecute and only if the investigation is confined to the territory of the investigating state. Simply put, we may not investigate or prosecute international crimes in breach of considerations of complementarity and subsidiarity. The second is that there must be “anticipated presence” of the suspect in South Africa (p. 35): The second limiting principle is practicability. Before our...
16 Jan Following the Historic Trial of the 2009 [Stadium] Massacre, Guinea Should Support the Adoption of a United Nations Convention on Crimes Against Humanity
...prosecute and try crimes against humanity under the principle of complementarity (article 17 of the Rome Statute). The future convention follows a similar logic. While it does not create an international court, it will oblige states parties to prevent, prosecute and provide reparation for crimes against humanity. The future convention and the Rome Statute are therefore complementary and mutually reinforcing. Equipping Justice Actors to Protect the Rights of Parties in Trials The Guinean justice system distinguished itself by conducting the trial of the 2009 massacre from start to finish, effectively...
11 Jul The New STCoA: The Good, the Bad, the Curious, and the Terrible
...Statute to deny the Prosecutor proprio motu power full stop — regardless of why Ukraine might not refer a particular suspect to the tribunal. I also believe that giving a state complete primacy over an ICT is unprecedented (for a reason) in the history of international criminal law. Not even the ICC is so subordinated, despite the principle of complementarity, because the Court’s own judges have the final say over whether a case is admissible. Conclusion For too long — more than three years — too many states and scholars...
02 Apr A Powerful Tool for Human Rights, Wrongly Used Against the ICC: The Actual Impact of Sanctions
...them unable to enter into business transactions, move currency between banks, travel freely, or purchase basic goods and services. Despite the global focus on targeting human rights violators, in 2020 the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), based on an Executive Order of former U.S. President Trump, imposed sanctions on personnel from the International Criminal Court. Madame Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda became a specially designated national, or “SDN,” along with Phakiso Mocochoko, head of the Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division at the ICC. These economic sanctions were in...27 Jan Events and Announcements: 27 January 2020
Jobs The Asia Justice Coalition is pleased to announce two vacancies. The Asia Justice Coalition (AJC) is a network of organizations whose purpose is to promote justice and accountability for gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law in Asia, and to contribute to the fulfillment of the rights of victims and their families. Working together based on foundational principles of collaboration, complementarity, independence and transparency, the members of the coalition include Amnesty International, Asia Justice and Rights, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Centre for...