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23 Mar

...2012, the ICC issued an arrest warrant against former First Lady of Côte d’Ivoire Simone Gbagbo on charges of crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the 2010-2011 post-election violence. Ms Gbagbo was simultaneously prosecuted and then acquitted by Cote d’Ivoire’s High Court for the same crimes, and the ICC vacated the warrant’s effects in 2021. Her husband, former President Laurent Gbagbo, was also acquitted by the ICC for lack of evidence. In 2023, the ICC also issued an arrest warrant against Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights,...
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09 Jul

of the ICC practice in relation to the complementarity assessment are evident. Therefore, judicial review is required in view of the dramatic impact of the adopted complementarity assessment, on the present situation and beyond it, as the overly restrictive approach adopted by the Prosecutor in this situation may have grave consequences for other preliminary examinations and investigations. In light of the above, a new determination on the issue will only reinforce the Court and enhance confidence in the ICC Prosecutor’s independence, as the request notes referring also to the strong...
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08 Jan

[Yifat Susskind is the Executive Director of MADRE, an international human rights organization dedicated to meeting urgent needs in communities facing crisis and using the human rights framework to create durable social change] For women, girls, and LGBTQI+ persons in Afghanistan, the struggle for justice has never been more urgent. With each passing day, the Taliban is consolidating power while the international community edges toward normalizing relations with Afghanistan’s de facto rulers. This leaves the International Criminal Court (ICC) as one of the few institutions able to secure justice for...
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12 Feb

...a State Party to the ICC. It has not ratified the Rome Statute, the ICC’s founding instrument. However, in such cases, the Security Council has the power to refer situations of mass atrocity to the ICC under the Council’s jurisdiction under Chapter VII. With reports from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other NGOs estimating that thousands have died, that torture is rampant in Iranian prisons, and that mass executions may be on the horizon, the international community should act. According to the BBC, at least 50,000 reports people have...
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24 Apr

...Court (ICC) has rightfully responded to this state of affairs. On 31 October 2022, Pre-Trial Chamber II authorised the Office of the Prosecutor to resume its long-standing investigation into the situation in Afghanistan. On 28 November 2024, Chile, Costa Rica, Spain, France, Luxembourg, and Mexico referred the situation to the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), urging action with respect to gender-based crimes. This momentum culminated on 23 January 2025, when the OTP announced the filing of arrest warrants for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds against the...
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19 Jun

computers to the ICC, when some of those computers might be used by sanctioned persons, that company might decide it is safer just not to provide computers to the ICC at all. Persons and entities can ask for interpretative guidance from OFAC, and sometimes OFAC will post such guidance on their website, but even when this guidance is provided it is no shield to civil or legal liability. What to Expect Next Eventually, the government will probably issue regulations implementing this order, although unlike some other executive orders establishing sanctions...
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08 Aug

...witnesses, intermediaries (individuals who facilitate contact between an ICC organ and victims and witnesses, see the full definition in the Intermediary Guidelines, pp. 5-7), alleged former child soldiers, and other individuals, in relation to Count 29, i.e. the conscription, enlistment and use of children under the age of fifteen years to participate actively in hostilities, pursuant to Article 8(2)(e)(vii) ICC Statute (Exclusion Request, paras. 2-3; see also here). The Defence’s case rested on alleged violations of Articles 54(1), 67(1)(e) and (2) ICC Statute, arguing that prosecutorial investigative failures and inadequate supervision...
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30 Mar

This op-ed by a former ICTY and ICTR prosecutor argues that the ICC should move, at least some of their hearings and trials, to locations closer to the site of the alleged crimes. In the case of the ICC, this means spending some of the $600 million it has spent so far on facilities in Africa, where all of its current prosecutions are taking place. The Hague. . .is more than 6,000 kilometers away. Systematically holding trials at that distance makes no sense. Criminal justice in practice is an intensively...
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10 Feb

This would give a very, very strong message to those running the show,” Rupert Colville, spokesman for U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, told a news briefing. I suppose there is some possibility that China and Russia would allow an ICC investigation (Syria is not a state-party to the ICC) even as they oppose a more powerful UNSC resolution. But it hardly seems likely. And there is almost no chance, in my view, that such an investigation would make a meaningful difference to a brutal dictator, and regime,...
10.02.12 | |

30 Nov

The International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties has opened their second session in the Hague this week. The Assembly of States Parties is composed of representatives of all of the governments party to the ICC Statute, that is to say, those countries that have signed and ratified the ICC Statute. Of course, the U.S. has famously revoked its signature to the ICC Statute. Or has it? According to the ICC’s official statement, the U.S. is a “observatory signatory.” That is, the U.S. is not a party “to the Statute...
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06 Feb

to which Julian linked (and I thank Julian for the link), Obama, during the campaign, never expressed strong support for the ICC. He expressed his intention to review ICC policy but always framed it in a way that suggested he had no intention of actually pursuing Rome Statute ratification. But I wouldn't say it's a continuation of Bush-style ICC rejectionism but rather another example of Obama-style have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too-ism. The U.S. will support the ICC, using it as a tool to serve U.S. interests when possible while never submitting to its jurisdiction....
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19 Mar

According to the AP, Sudan announced yesterday that it will suspend all cooperation with the International Criminal Court following that the ICC prosecutor’s charges of war crimes against a Sudan government minister. “We had extended our cooperation with the ICC for some time, but now the situation is completely different,” Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardi told The Associated Press on the telephone from Geneva, where he was attending a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting. “It’s not even a question of cooperation anymore, it’s a question that they (the ICC) want...
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