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How to kickstart the ICC reform process

byJournalists For Justice
November 26, 2019
in ASP, ICC Cases
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How to kickstart the ICC reform process

The seventeenth session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened today at the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague, The Netherlands. From 5 to 12 December 2018, States Parties to the Rome Statute, the Court's founding treaty, observer States, invited States, international and regional organizations and representatives from civil society will discuss key challenges facing the Statute, as it is turning 20 this year.

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By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague

Frustrations around some aspects of how the International Criminal Court functions – accumulated over the past 17 years since its founding treaty, the Rome Statute, came into force and culminating in the past few years  – have been boiling over. States, the creators and the legislators of the first permanent international criminal jurisdiction, have begun a “court review” process. But it may be years before any concrete action comes of this cumbersome exercise since diplomats spend lots of time discussing the procedure for appointing experts who would make recommendations for improvement, deciding what they may look at, and what they may not reflect upon.

Journalists For Justice has elected to focus attention on the first immediate steps that can be taken very quickly in order to create the necessary momentum for an ICC reform process. JFJ looks at the reality of the court cases to see what can be done immediately to visibly improve the prospects for justice, thus creating a positive momentum and optimism for the future.

First installment: reform article 70 of the Rome Statute.

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