Month: November 2019

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague Is starving civilians in a civil war “less bad” than starving civilians in a war between states? Switzerland proposes to make the intentional starvation ...

By Susan Kendi Five long years passed between the time that the International Criminal Court(ICC) Trust Fund for Victims(TVF) announced their intention to send a fact-finding mission to Kenya and ...

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague It can be said about any meeting about complex issues that participants and observers must have read the documents that are being talked about, ...

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague When two ICC judges acquitted Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé in January 2019, they were quite rightly accused of a violation of the ...

By Anushka Sehmi On April 12, 2019, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “Court”) rejected a request by Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to open an investigation into ...

By Luis Moreno Ocampo, founding ICC chief prosecutor Where should the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) open new investigations? The answer to that question will define the next ...

By Kwamchetsi Makokha in Nairobi Was Luis Moreno Ocampo a bad prosecutor of the International Criminal Court? Experts reviewing the collapse of the Kenya cases at the ICC say he ...

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague ‘Lessons learnt!’ was an important mantra when the Rome Statute was negotiated and, after its entry into force in 2002, started to be concretely ...

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague Frustrations around some aspects of how the International Criminal Court functions - accumulated over the past 17 years since its founding treaty, the Rome ...

As announced last week, the Judges of Pre-Trial Chamber III have authorised my Office to commence an investigation into the Situation in the People's Republic of Bangladesh/Republic of the Union ...