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The International Criminal Court’s Stance on Torture

• March 30, 2012

People who deal professionally with victims of physical and psychological torture want to not only heal their patients but also stop torture dead in its tracks. So they were pleased to learn that like other individuals or groups, they could submit evidence they had gathered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, …

Child Soldiers, ICC, International Justice

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The Security Council Shows Unity on Syrian Crisis

Dulcie Leimbach

• March 21, 2012

The Security Council adopted a presidential statement today backing Kofi Annan, the joint United Nations-Arab League special envoy to Syria, on his mission to resolve the year-long crisis there. Russia’s UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, told the press after the adoption that his country’s stance on Syria had not changed and that the statement reflected …

ICC, Middle East, Security Council

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Congolese Warlord Found Guilty in Court’s First-Ever Trial

Dulcie Leimbach

• March 14, 2012

Thomas Lubanga, the Congolese militant accused of war crimes by recruiting child soldiers under age 15 to fight in conflicts in the eastern region of his country, has been found guilty of the war crimes by a three-judge chamber presiding at his case at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The decision was …

Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC

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Verdict on Congolese Rebel About to Be Made

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• February 29, 2012

The International Criminal Court is ready to announce its first-ever verdict, in the trial of Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese warlord accused of committing war crimes for recruiting child soldiers under age 15. The verdict will be read on March 14 at the court’s headquarters in The Hague, where the judicial body began operating in …

Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC

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New Judges and a Presidential Vote at The Hague

Dulcie Leimbach

• February 17, 2012

The International Criminal Court will swear in six new judges on March 9 and elect, by absolute majority, a new president of the court and two new vice presidents. The court’s 18 judges will vote in the election, with several most likely to run for the three-year presidency themselves, though the incumbent, Judge Sang-Hyun …

GOINGS-ON, ICC

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Quietly, New US Policies Align With the UN

Barbara Crossette

• December 29, 2011

On Dec. 16, without fanfare, President Barack Obama issued an executive orderestablishing for the first time a global American policy to advance women’s roles in making and keeping peace. The absence or marginalization of women from international security affairs has been a cause of much United Nations attention for more than a decade, right …

ICC, US-UN Relations, Women

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The International Court’s New Prosecutor

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• December 13, 2011

Fatou Bensouda has been named the new prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, nominated by consensus by the Assembly of States Parties, which manages the court. She begins her nine-year term on June 16, 2012. Bensouda replaces Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine who seeks the spotlight and has served as the court’s first and only …

Africa, GOINGS-ON, ICC

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Four Candidates Named at The Hague Court

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• October 25, 2011

The International Criminal Court has released the names of four candidates short-listed for the December 2011 election of the chief prosecutor to replace Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine whose nonrenewable term is expiring in June 2012. The court is the first and only permanent international court that tries people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, …