Opinion
Cover-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 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 moreDetailsArticle 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 moreDetailsLate publication of charges an affront to justice
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...
Read moreDetailsIn Afghanistan ICC abandons the field
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...
Read moreDetailsAfghan war crime victims appeal to reverse ICC judges’ decision
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...
Read moreDetailsVictims’ attempt to ‘save’ Afghan investigation leads to conundrum
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...
Read moreDetailsString of controversies at the ICC tests court’s staunchest supporters
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...
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