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In an article published on the website we said that Michelle Jarvis the Deputy Head of the International Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria was in the running for the...
Read moreDetailsJudge: ICC Appeals Chamber was not mindful of victims’ human rights
A month ago the ICC appeals chamber denied victims the right to appeal the lower ICC judges’ refusal to allow the prosecutor to open an investigation into war crimes in...
Read moreDetailsBurundi truth commission criticised for selective exhumation of mass graves
By Millicent Zighe The Burundi Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has come under fire after critics expressed dissatisfaction over its composition and the general conduct of its operations throughout the...
Read moreDetailsDuring ASP, suffering in ICC situation countries should not be forgotten
December begins in The Hague with the annual session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), the managerial oversight and legislative body of the International Criminal Court. The meeting of...
Read moreDetailsThe ICC’s Trust Fund for family visits for detainees: Calling on states to step up
By Judy Mionki and Kate Orlovsky, International Bar Association ICC & ICL Programme For most International Criminal Court (ICC) detainees at the Detention Unit in Scheveningen, The Hague, home is...
Read moreDetailsCover-up fears in the collapse of Kenya ICC cases as key lawyers deny being contacted
By Rosemary Tollo in The Hague An experts’ report about how the Kenya cases at the International Criminal Court collapsed has begun to unravel after it emerged that critical actors...
Read moreDetailsStarvation of civilians is a war crime, no matter the type of conflict
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...
Read moreDetailsICC victim fund drags feet in Kenya case, causing worry
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...
Read moreDetailsCharges in writing a precondition for meaningful ICC proceedings
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,...
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...
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