Fatou Bensouda
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 10, 2012
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Thomas Lubanga, the 52-year-old Congolese militant convicted by the International Criminal Court in March for the war crimes of conscripting and enlisting child soldiers under age 15 and using them in hostilities, was sentenced today to 14 years’ …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 2, 2012
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Libyan authorities have released the four International Criminal Court staff members who have been held in Zintan after their visit on June 7, 2012, to Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, the son of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, to notify him of his legal …
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 22, 2012
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The International Criminal Court has announced that Libya’s attorney general, Abdelaziz al-Hassadi, and other top Libyans have visited its headquarters in The Hague, saying that Hassadi brought information on the status of the four court staff members imprisoned by militias …
- Categories: ICC
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 12, 2012
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The African Union, whose members decided three years ago not to honor an arrest warrant for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has been forced to find a new site for its regional summit in July after the small southern African …
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 17, 2012
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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 …
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 21, 2012
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When the carnage of the 1990s wound down, with more than a million people dead in massacres and brutal ethnic or political wars in and around Rwanda, the Balkans and elsewhere, nations that had failed to act to stop such …
- Categories: Peace and Security, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 13, 2011
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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 …