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International Criminal Court (ICC)

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24 March 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC grants first individual reparations to victims The International Criminal Court (ICC) decided on March 24 that victims of crimes committed by convicted Congolese  militiaman Germain Katanga will get both individual and collective reparations. This is the first time that the Co [...]
23 March 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Justice for victims at heart of ICC credibility, says Open Society The International Criminal Court (ICC) is to decide on March 24 what reparations to grant victims of former Congolese militiaman Germain Katanga, whom it sentenced in 2014 to 12 years in jail for crimes against humanity. To date, [...]
22 March 2017 by AFP
ICC jails ex-Congo VP for bribing witnesses Judges on Wednesday sentenced former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to a year in jail and fined him 300,000 euros for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial in an unprecedented case before the International Crim [...]
22 March 2017 by AFP
ICC poised to make first awards to war crimes' victims Judges at the International Criminal Court may Friday award the tribunal's first monetary sums to victims of war crimes, with lawyers estimating some $16.4 million in damages were caused by a 2003 attack on a Congolese village. Fr [...]
17 March 2017 by AFP
ICC : Namibia demands $30 bln for German genocide of Herero people Namibia is to launch a 30-billion-dollar (28-billion-euro) lawsuit against Germany over genocide committed during colonial rule, when tens of thousands of people were killed, according to documents seen by AFP on Friday. The Namib [...]
7 March 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC Prosecutor at a turning point International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has been in her post since June 16, 2012, and is now half way through her mandate. In four and a half years she has opened two new cases -- Mali and Georgia -- and issue [...]
7 March 2017 by AFP
South Africa revokes decision to leave ICC: UN South Africa has formally revoked its controversial decision to leave the International Criminal Court following last month's High Court ruling that such a move would be unconstitutional. Notice of Pretoria's decision to end the w [...]
1 March 2017 by AFP
Syria regime, rebels committed war crimes in Aleppo: UN probe All Syrian sides that fought in the battle for Aleppo committed war crimes and the deal to evacuate civilians following the rebel defeat was a "crime of forced displacement', a UN probe said Wednesday. The United Nations Commissio [...]
24 February 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Court ruling against ICC withdrawal an “embarrassment” for South Africa This week, the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, ruled that the government’s notification to the UN last October of its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was unconstitutional. South Africa’s announcement o [...]
22 February 2017 by AFP
S.African court rules against govt plan to pull out of ICC A South African court on Wednesday ruled the government's plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was "unconstitutional and invalid", providing a boost to the embattled Hague-based institution.The ICC has been [...]
15 February 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
After 15 years, ICC States still debating crime of aggression In 2017, member States of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are supposed to promulgate the Kampala amendments to the Court’s Statute, giving the ICC a green light to prosecute those most responsible for crimes of “aggression” [...]
7 February 2017 by AFP
Israel settler law angers world powers but Trump Israel faced mounting international criticism Tuesday over a new law allowing the appropriation of private Palestinian land for Jewish settler outposts, but the United States remained notably silent. The United Nations, Britain, F [...]
30 January 2017 by Kirsten J. Fisher, Ph.D.
Congo : The Challenges of the First Implementation of the ICC's Reparations Mandate On 14 March 2012, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Lubanga) was found guilty before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the war crime of conscripting or enlisting children under the age of 15, and using them to participate actively in [...]
17 January 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Targeted State killings abroad as a new form of war Since September 11, 2001, the strategy of targeted killings has become more and more widespread internationally, in the name of the War on Terror. But the question of their legality is controversial. The widening of targets is tur [...]
19 December 2016 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Gabon’s election rivals continue battle before the ICC On December 15, the lawyer for Jean Ping, recent candidate in Gabon’s elections, filed a complaint to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing the Gabonese authorities of crimes against humanity. This come [...]
14 December 2016 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC calls S. Africa and UN to explain lack of cooperation on Bashir South Africa has been summoned to appear before the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on April 7, 2017, over its failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al Bashir in June 2015. The United Nations has also been cal [...]
7 December 2016 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Ugandan child soldier turned "war criminal" on trial at ICC The trial of Ugandan Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier turned commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), started at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday December 6. Ongwen is accused of crimes against h [...]
30 November 2016 by AFP
Rebuilding history? Debate rages over lost Afghan Buddhas For centuries they stood, two monumental ancient statues of Buddha carved into the cliffs of Bamiyan, loved and revered by generations of Afghans -- only to be pulverised by the Taliban in an act of cultural genocide. It felt like [...]
22 November 2016 by AFP
ICC to probe Libya migrant trafficking Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court will probe the trafficking of migrants out of Libya to see if there is evidence of war crimes, the chief prosecutor told AFP Tuesday. With the situation in Libya "deteriorating," Fat [...]