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Article 74 of Rome Statute goes against the natural sense of justice
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...
Read moreDetails‘Friends of the court’ come to the aid of the Appeals Chamber in the Afghanistan situation
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...
Read moreDetailsNext assembly a test of states’ commitment to the Rome Statute
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...
Read moreDetailsHow borrowing from Yugoslavia tribunal could resolve headache with ICC contempt procedures
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...
Read moreDetailsHow to kickstart the ICC reform process
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...
Read moreDetailsBar association reacts 40 junior lawyers complaints of poor treatment at the ICC
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...
Read moreDetailsUS threat to ICC discussed during states’ debate on Rome Statute anniversary
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...
Read moreDetails‘Small 10’ protest as states leave ICC with a reduced budget
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...
Read moreDetailsKwon: Climate not right to promote universality but ambition to fight impunity remains
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...
Read moreDetailsMyths about the ICC that persist in the Islamic world
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...
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