Opinion

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 Thomas Verfuss in The Hague Thursday, September 19th, 2019 was not only a special day because the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague held hearings on the merits...

Recently, a panel of International Criminal Court (ICC) judges unanimously rejected Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s November 2017 request to open an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity during...

Eighty-two Afghan victims have appealed a recent decision by judges of the International Criminal Court that denied the ICC Prosecutor authorisation to open an investigation into crimes committed in Afghanistan over the...

The decision of a pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) not to authorize the prosecutor to pursue a formal investigation in Afghanistan into alleged war crimes and crimes...

By Thomas Verfuss There is growing frustration with the string of controversies at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. “The judges themselves are killing the Court,” says the...

By Millicent Zighe America has been challenged to stop being an enemy of the International Criminal Court and instead support it. ICC President Chile Eboe-Osuji appealed to the American leadership...

On March 14, Phil Clark, author of the book Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics spoke at an event on the failures and future of the International Criminal...

Judges at the world’s highest court have spoken: Africa’s decolonization has not been lawfully completed. The British illegally detached the Chagos Islands from Mauritius before the colony was granted independence...

By Susan Kendi A global coalition of civil society organizations has challenged the European Union to put its money where its mouth is by pulling out of an Arab Summit...