Burkina Faso and Niger have both signed the Rome Treaty setting up the International Criminal Court, which should rule them out as potential havens for Muammar Qaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader.
Posts Tagged “International Criminal Court”
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Posted in: Africa, Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: Abdullah al-Senussi, Alison Cole, Burkina Faso, ICC, International Criminal Court, Libya, Moammar Qaddafi, Niger, Rome Statute, Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi
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Muammar Qaddafi’s recent offer to talk has raised the question of whether the transition to peace is helped or hampered by a public International Criminal Court arrest warrant. Would keeping indictments confidential facilitate justice?
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International law requires Libya's National Transitional Council to implement the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court, and to hand any suspects it holds over to The Hague.
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After some six years of proceedings, the International Criminal Court trial of Thomas Lubanga is entering its final phase. The case has been marked by both milestones and near-disasters for international justice.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Alison Cole, child soldiers, complementarity, Democratic Republic of Congo, intermediaries, International Criminal Court, international justice, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, rape, Thomas Lubanga
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To mark World Day for International Criminal Justice, here's a quick look at the work that the Open Society Justice Initiative is doing to monitor the proceedings of the International Criminal Court and the special tribunals set up for Sierra Leone and Cambodia.
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It is time for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to move forward in his commitment to justice and accountability over the 2009 atrocities in Sri Lanka.
Posted in: Asia, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: Alison Cole, Ban Ki-moon, China, International Criminal Court, international justice, LTTE, Sri Lanka, Tamil, UN, UN Security Council
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It might seem quixotic for the International Criminal Court to indict Libya's unrepentant leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi. But the call for justice can have a pragmatic effect too.
Posted in: Africa, Middle East, Rights & Justice
Topics: al-Bashir, Bosnia, Charles Taylor, Darfur, ICC, ICTY, International Criminal Court, international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, international justice, James A. Goldston, Libya, Lord's Resistance Army, Milosevic, Moammar Qaddafi, Sudan, Uganda, Yugoslavia
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The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has finally taken on a case—and it's a big one. The court recently weighed in on the ongoing human rights crisis in Libya.
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More than 30 years after the murderous Khmer Rouge were driven from power in Cambodia, the effort to bring justice to the victims stands on the brink of ignominious failure due to political interference from the Cambodian government and the indifference of the international community.
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The recent calls for "ethnic solidarity" in Kenya are not only a concern for international justice, but for the country's history.