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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 1, 2012
No American diplomat or scholar of international law has been more deeply involved than David Scheffer in the creation of virtually every war crimes court from the catastrophic implosion of Yugoslavia to the long-overdue reckoning for the Khmer Rouge…
- Categories: BOOKS, ICC, International Justice
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • 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…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, ICC, International Justice
- 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…
- Categories: ICC, Middle East, Security Council
- 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…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • 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…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
- 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…
- 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…
- Categories: ICC, US-UN Relations, Women
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • 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,…
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • 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…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON, ICC, International Justice
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