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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...

In response to the article ‘More than forty junior lawyers rail against poor treatment at the ICC’, written on behalf of 46 support staff of victim and defence counsel, the...

By Tom Maliti The threat made by a senior official of the United States to the International Criminal Court (ICC) was one of the issues member states of the ICC...

The Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute has adopted a budget for the ICC for 2019 that amounts to a de facto decrease. The states further cut a...

By Thomas Verfuss On the fringes of the 17th Assembly States Parties, Journalists For Justice (JFJ) exclusively interviewed President O-Gon Kwon about his first year at the helm of the political...

By Thomas Verfuss Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe and Latin America are very widely represented at the ICC (African states being the biggest group), but in the Islamic world, there are...

The ICC seen through African eyes Dozens of civil society representatives, diplomats, academic observers, an ICC judge and other court staff attended the official opening of “Commemorating 20 years of...

By Thomas Verfuss The obligation to execute ICC arrest warrants and to cooperate with the court’s investigations is much talked about. But – next to cooperation with the court that...

Following the release of an open letter of complaint to delegates to the 17th Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, Journalists For Justice asked the Registry of the International...