The ICC

Frosty relations between the International Criminal Court and the African Union appeared to thaw this week after officials from the two institutions met at a two-day retreat in Addis Ababa,...

Honourable Judges, This trial is about violence and misery that blighted the lives of millions of people living in Northern Uganda. Ordinary civilians, who simply wanted to be allowed to...

By Kwamchetsi Makokha Dominic Ongwen’s trial opening was briefly thrown into a tailspin after he declined to plead to 70 charges facing him at the International Criminal Court. Judges were...

By Kwamchetsi Makokha Envoys from African nations have put the International Criminal Court in the dock over claims of bias and unfair treatment in an attempt to explain treaty withdrawals...

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Mrs Fatou Bensouda, issued her new Strategic Plan that will guide the work of the Office of the Prosecutor for the period of...

By Kwamchetsi Makokha Africans pulling out of the International Criminal Court have edged themselves to the top of the agenda at the 15th Assembly of States Parties, which began at The...

Everybody knows what judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers do at the International Criminal Court, but not so a strange beast in the zoo of organs and institutions that make up...

 Judges at the International Criminal Court will next week sentence Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, who last month pleaded guilty to the war crime of destroying historical and religious monuments...

The trial of Malian with links to Al Qaeda, Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, is scheduled to open on Monday, August 22, at The Hague, Netherlands. Al Mahdi is accused of the war...

 A Dutch-based lawyer for a Palestinian human rights organisation has been receiving death threats over her cooperation with the International Criminal Court.  Nada Kiswanson, who works for the Al-Haq organisation,...