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17 Aug This Is Why People Think the ICC Is Unfairly Targeting Africa
Snapshot of two days in the life of the ICC. On Tuesday, the ICC issued a new arrest warrant in the Libya situation — for Mahmoud al-Werfalli, a commander in the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), which defected from the Libyan army during the revolution and is currently vying for power with the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). The arrest warrant represents a new phase in the ICC’s completely unsuccessful investigation in Libya, as it is the first to focus on events that happened after the revolution. There is...16 Apr Bensouda on Palestinian Ratification of the Rome Statute
on to say that, now that the UN General Assembly had made its determination that Palestine is a state, “the ball is now in the court of Palestine”, “Palestine has to come back” and “we are waiting for them”. While she said, unsurprisingly, that any new application would have to be considered, there was no ambiguity or suspense as to the result of the requisite consideration. It was clear that, in her eyes, ICC membership for the State of Palestine was Palestine’s for the asking. There was even a hint...
01 Aug Symposium on Unbroken Bond: Tracing the Ties Between African and Palestinian Anti-Colonial Struggles – African Media Silence: Complicity in the Oppression of Sudan and Palestine
...on the silence of the ICC on the Sudan war. Media Reporting on the Israel-Palestine War For this conflict, I have chosen three major events which include: 7 October 2023 Hamas attack and Israel retaliation The South Africa ICJ case against Israel The ICC seeking arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas leader 7 October 2023: Hamas Attack and Israel Retaliation Country News Reported Reporter Reported/Not Reported Kenya Citizen TV Reported KTN News Reported NTV Kenya Reported South Africa News24 Reported SABC News Reported Daily Maverick Not...
24 Nov A look at OSJI’s “Raising the Bar: Improving the Nomination and Selection of Judges at the International Criminal Court”
states from as many of the ICC’s five regional groupings as possible, and prioritization of those states that have nominated multiple candidates to the bench.” OSJI conducted desktop research and primary source interviews from January to May this year and spoke to a variety of relevant actors including ICC judges (current and former), ICC staff, civil society organisations, government representatives, former members of the Advisory Committee on the Nominations of Judges. The process for electing judges for the ICC is, in short, as follows: candidates must be nominated by a...01 Dec Kenya and the ICC
...he was going to do about it. The meeting had been convened to check the status of the ICC ratification by the member countries. Meanwhile, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, on Tuesday said it had submitted its report on post-election violence to the ICC and pledged to help the court to prosecute the suspects. Mr Sirma told the Nation: “I asked Mr Moreno-Ocompo whether he had received the list from Kenya but he said that was a matter between the ICC and Mr Annan. However, he said they...
02 Apr A Powerful Tool for Human Rights, Wrongly Used Against the ICC: The Actual Impact of Sanctions
...Order deemed a national emergency and threat to national security. Whilst the Executive Order only mentions the situation in Afghanistan and the risk of prosecution of U.S. military personnel, the United States has expressed concerns and disagreement with the decision of the ICC to pursue its investigation into the situation involving Israel and Palestine. Despite the Biden Administration’s focus on human rights and foreign policy, the sanctions against the ICC personnel remain in place. This means, at the most basic level, personnel are subject to travel bans and have restrictions...
08 Apr ICC Prosecutor Symposium: The Chief Prosecutor: Diplomat, Politician, Leader, Manager, and Lawyer
...Prosecutor do to improve the ICC’s investigation techniques? Bring on experienced investigators who are following a realistic, well thought out, and politically sensitive investigation. 6. Should the next Prosecutor address the Africa-ICC relationship? If so, how? Traveling the continent seeking perspectives and views on how the ICC and Africa can work together. Showing respect and interest in a mutually supported plan for justice with a focus on regional efforts would go a long way to repair a shattered relationship. 7. How do we assess the Prosecutor’s performance? In an annual...
25 Apr We Need to Talk About Grave Breaches of the Geneva Conventions
[Andrew Clapham is Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute and the author of “Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction and War“.] The arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova have generated a lot of talk about the absence of any obligation on Russia to comply due to Russia not being a party to the Statute of the ICC. In addition, we have seen a secondary debate about the personal immunity of a head of state from a...
19 Sep What Does Mongolia’s Failure to Arrest Putin Mean? Integrity and the War on International Law
...immunity before international courts in recent years were the ICC’s findings that certain State Parties to the Rome Statute that created the ICC breached their duty of cooperation by failing to arrest Omar al-Bashir when he visited their territories. Al-Bashir, like Putin, was at the time the sitting head of state (and head of government). Sudan, like Russia, was not and is not a State Party to the ICC. Putin’s visit to Mongolia and al-Bashir’s visits to several State Parties both raise the question of cooperation with the Court, but...05 Nov Kenya’s Post-Election Violence: Case Headed to the Hague
election violence and to cooperate with the ICC “within the framework of the Rome Statute and…[Kenya’s] International Crimes Act.” Thus, Kenya avoided having to refer the investigation and possible prosecution of post election violence suspects to the ICC under Article 14 of the Rome Statute. It seems neither Kibaki nor Raila wanted to take the political heat from their respective inner circles of having surrendered the fate of some of their most senior cabinet members to the ICC. Thus, the ICC will serve for Kenya, the role of conducting perhaps...