Category Archives: ICC Prosecutor

Why the ICC Won’t Prosecute Museveni

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Mark Kersten

Anyone who has visited and spoken to the citizens of northern Uganda will be well aware of the harrowing stories of abuse and devastation wreaked by the vicious twenty-five year war between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Fatou Bensouda, ICC Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Uganda | 44 Comments

Is International Criminal Justice Coming to South Sudan?

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Mark Kersten

The following is a guest-post by Patryk I. Labuda on the potential of pursuing international criminal justice in South Sudan. Patryk is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva who has worked in South Sudan, Sudan and … Continue reading →

Posted in ICC Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal Justice, South Sudan, Sudan | Tagged , | 4 Comments

Scoping Out the Crime: Palestine, the Mavi Marmara and the ICC

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Mark Kersten

Dr Russell Buchan joins JiC for this guest-post on the ICC Prosecutor’s decision to close its investigation of Israel’s attack on the Gaza Flotilla. Russell a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Sheffield and the author of International Law … Continue reading →

Posted in Admissibility, Gravity, ICC Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, Palestine, Turkey | Tagged , | 3 Comments

The ICC Needs Political Advice – Here’s One Way It Can Get It

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Mark Kersten

Over the next few weeks, OpenDemocracy will host a number of articles on the history, impact, challenges and future of the International Criminal Court (ICC). There are already number of fantastic contributions including from always cogent David Petrasek. Today’s post … Continue reading →

Posted in ICC Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC) | Tagged , | 3 Comments

The Complementarity Turn in International Criminal Justice

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Mark Kersten

It is no secret. The last few months and years have not been kind to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Fairly or not, the Court has been the target of a growing chorus of criticisms which insist that it unfairly targets African states … Continue reading →

Posted in Complementarity, ICC Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal Justice | 5 Comments

What Gives? African Union Head of State Immunity

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Mark Kersten

Last week, the African Union (AU) voted to grant immunity from prosecution to all African Heads of State and “senior officials” at the African Court of Justice and Human Rights. Predictably, the human rights and international justice world were up in arms. … Continue reading →

Posted in African Union (AU), ICC Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC) | 4 Comments

The ICC in Libya: Not Done Just Yet

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Mark Kersten

With the ruling that the case against Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is admissible before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and that Libya must surrender him to The Hague, observers might be inclined to think the story between the ICC and Libya … Continue reading →

Posted in ICC Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), Libya, Libya and the ICC, United Nations | 2 Comments

New article: “The International Criminal Court and the Politics of Prosecutions”

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Alana Tiemessen

I have a new article out in The International Journal of Human Rights that JiC readers might be interested in.*  If anyone does not have access to the journal through their library’s subscriptions, they are free to contact me for … Continue reading →

Posted in Gravity, ICC Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), Syria, UN Security Council, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

US Throws Support Behind Referral of Syria to the ICC

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Mark Kersten

In a bombshell, must-read exclusive at Foreign Policy, Colum Lynch reports that the Obama administration has decided to throw its support behind a United Nations Security Council referral of Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC). There is an obvious … Continue reading →

Posted in ICC Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC), Russia, Syria, UN Security Council, United States | Tagged , | 8 Comments

ICC Says No to Opening Investigation in Egypt

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Mark Kersten

Ever since the Arab Spring and the overthrow of the Hosni Mubarak regime, Egypt has had a rather fluctuant and controversial political relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Today, that relationship took yet another turn. Earlier this year, a number of … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt, ICC Prosecutor, ICC Registry, International Criminal Court (ICC) | Tagged , | 4 Comments