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8 unusual facts about International Criminal Court


Alexandra Cabot

However, the case affects both the witness and Cabot; the witness decides to return to the Congo to help rape victims there, while Cabot decides to take a leave of absence and joins the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court, which prosecutes sex crimes and other human rights abuses in areas such as the Congo.

Alexis Thambwe Mwamba

In late August 2009, shots were fired at his house as a threat against testifying in the trial at the International Criminal Court of Bemba.

Alyn Ware

In 1991 he worked for the World Federalist Movement monitoring developments at the UN on the proposed International Criminal Court in preparation for the launch of the Coalition for an International Criminal Court (CICC) - which was successful in establishing the ICC.

Bernard Lavigne

In 2005, he was one of the first team leader of the International Criminal Court and specifically tasked with the enforcement of international law in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

ICCT

International Criminal Court (ICCt) was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes

Ituri conflict

On February 10, 2006, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Lubanga for the war crime of "conscripting and enlisting children under the age of fifteen years and using them to participate actively in hostilities".

Luzolo Bambi Lessa

In this capacity, he played a key role in cooperation with between the DRC and the International Criminal Court, leading to the agreement on judicial cooperation between the DRC and the ICC (6 October 2005) and the Interim Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the ICC (12 October 2005).

Mohamed Bacar

Comoran President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi said that if the French objected to extraditing Bacar to Comoros, where the death penalty is allowed, then it could send him to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for trial.


Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein

On 2 December 2011, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, requested a Pre-Trial Chamber of the Court to issue an arrest warrant against Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Étienne Tshisekedi

This time around, Bemba (the 2006 presidential candidate) was sidelined, on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for alleged war crimes in 2002–2003.

Farah Karimi

She also asked question to Minister Jozias van Aartsen on the American Service-Members' Protection Act, which obliges the American government to free American citizens who are brought to the International Criminal Court in The Hague -even with the use of violence- and Minister Ben Bot on the Dutch support for the Iraq War.

Foreign relations of Panama

Panama is also a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the US-military (as covered under Article 98).

Gatumba

Following the FNL's admission of responsibility for the Gatumba massacre, the Burundian government issued arrest warrants for the group's leader, Agathon Rwasa, and declared its intention to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court.

International court

Three such courts are presently located at The Hague in the Netherlands: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

International Federation for Human Rights

The International Secretariat is based in Paris, with delegations to the United Nations in Geneva and New York, to the European Union in Brussels, to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to the African Union in Nairobi and to the Asean in Bangkok.

Luis Moreno Ocampo

On 16 May 2011, he filed a request to the ICC to issue an arrest warrant against Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi, for crimes against humanity.

Neri Javier Colmenares

He also lectured at the University of Melbourne on International Human Rights Law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Riga Graduate School of Law

A number of distinguished legal practitioners and academics have contributed to the series, among them Luzius Wildhaber, former President of the European Court of Human Rights, Jutta Limbach, former President of the German Constitutional Court, and Anita Usacka, Judge of the International Criminal Court.

Social media marketing

A short film released on March 5, 2012, by humanitarian group Invisible Children, Inc. This 29 minute video aimed at making Joseph Kony, an International Criminal Court fugitive, famous worldwide in order to have support for his arrest by December 2012; the time when the campaign ends.

Tadashi Inuzuka

Accordingly, he has thrived in his campaign for Japan's accession to the International Criminal Court or ICC.

The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya

For example, the vice-president of the International Center for Transitional Justice recently spoke of the International Criminal Court’s involvement in the efforts to reconcile Kenya.


see also

Fact-finding

Professor Lyal S. Sunga discusses how UN human rights special procedures fact-finding can help the International Criminal Court find facts and how the two should be made complementary.

John L. Washburn

John L. Washburn is the Convener for the American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC) and Co-Chair of the Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court (WICC).

Murder of Eve Carson

Speakers have included Elizabeth Edwards, author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, now Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, Mika Brzezinski, and most recently, former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

Neri Javier Colmenares

He was an Associate of the Asian Law Centre at Melbourne Law School when he was completing his Ph.D in Law on “The Writ of Amparo and the International Criminal Court”.

His recent papers include a Primer on the Writ of Habeas Data, The Comparative Analysis of the Writ of Amparo, Impeachment as a Constitutional Accountability Mechanism, the Party List system Law, and the International Criminal Court and other articles for the Philippine Law Journal and was Associate Editor of the World Bulletin of the UP Law Center on the issue of international crimes.

Nulyarimma v Thompson

It was eventually scrapped in favour of the with the International Criminal Court Bill which adopted the United Nations Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Odio

Elizabeth Odio Benito (born 1939), Vice-President of the International Criminal Court

Robert Kurt Woetzel

At Oxford, he became close friends with A. N. R. Robinson, who in 1989, as Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, reintroduced a proposal for an International Criminal Court to the United Nations General Assembly.

In 1989, Woetzel assisted A. N. R. Robinson and Benjamin Ferencz in drafting the proposal that reintroduced the idea of an International Criminal Court to the General Assembly.

Sri Lanka and state terrorism

According to the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court identifies "conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen years into armed forces or groups or using them to participate actively in hostilities" as a war crime.

Twenty-third Amendment

Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which permitted the state to recognise the International Criminal Court