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ICC issues landmark policy to tackle slavery crimes
In acknowledgement of the need to address increasing cases of slavery crimes, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has launched a new policy to guide it in investigating and prosecuting enslavement...
Read moreDetailsICC Prosecutor requests official investigation of sexual harassment claims against him
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan has asked the court’s official watchdog to investigate sexual harassment allegations targeting him since May 2024. “I have today notified the Presidency of...
Read moreDetailsPressure mounts on the ICC
When state members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) were looking for a new leader of the office of the prosecutor four years ago, their initial list of candidates failed to inspire...
Read moreDetailsICC to deliver verdict in Al Hassan case
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, deliver its verdict in the case of Malian national Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz, who is accused of war...
Read moreDetailsICC and UNSC Must Do More for Sudan’s Mass Atrocity Victims
On 24 January 2024, the Africans for the Horn of Africa Initiative (Af4HA), a coalition of African civil society organisations committed to working collectively on the crises in the Horn...
Read moreDetailsWhat next for the victims as ICC closes Kenyan investigation?
“If we are true to the promise that every life matters, we need to find a way to grip and to tackle and to be relevant to people that are...
Read moreDetailsASP 2023 should address handling of seized assets
As delegates meet in New York for the ongoing 22nd session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court...
Read moreDetailsICC Concludes Charge Confirmation Hearing in Mokom Case
On 24 August 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) concluded the Confirmation of Charges Hearing in the case of Maxime Jeoffroy Eli Mokom Gawaka, the alleged Central African Republic (CAR)...
Read moreDetailsFailed promises after 25 years of Rome Statute, lessons not learnt: still no journalists from situation countries at ICC trials
International Justice Day 2023 marks the 25th birthday of the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC): very late in the evening of July 17th, 1998,...
Read moreDetailsBen Ferencz, a legend of international justice
The sad news went around the world during the Easter days: Ben Ferencz has died. The last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials had passed away, at 103 years of...
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