Month: November 2015

The 14th Assembly of State Party (ASP) responsible for the management and oversight of the ICC has adopted resolutions on: Article 124, Cooperation, Strengthening the International Criminal Court and the ...

Kenya was allowed to save face at the Assembly of States Parties after its diplomatic efforts to end the trial of Deputy President William Ruto at the International Criminal Court ...

States parties approved to insert Kenya’s requested language on the non-retroactive use of amended Rule 68 on using pre-recorded witnesses testimony in the Assembly’s final report. States did not include ...

On 24 November 2015, the President of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or the “Court”), Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, and the ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda addressed a special plenary ...

Civil society organisations from Africa, led by the Kenyan coalition, last week put brakes on attempts to turn the ongoing Assembly of State Parties into an appeal chamber for decisions ...

 The African Union has urged the International Criminal Court to reform or risk losing its members who are signatories to the Rome Statute.  "We have arrived at the conclusion that ...

It is a great pleasure for me to present the Court's annual report to the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, and to do this for this first ...

Supplementary agenda items requested by Kenya have been approved and will be featured on the formal ASP agenda. Kenya had proposed two agenda items to be discussed. The first request ...

Over 30 African civil society and international organisations with a presence in Africa promoting support by African governments for justice for grave crimes, urge African ICC States Parties to commit ...

Strong opposition to Kenya’s attempts to discuss the use of recanted evidence at the Assembly of States Parties emerged in a letter dispatched to its President, Sidiki Kaba, on Saturday. ...