African Union Backs Mass ICC Withdrawal
Africa has 34 signatories to the Rome Statute, the treaty that set up the court The African Union has called ...
Tag: International criminal law
The Offsprings of Aujooulat and the Genocide of the Southern Cameroons
Never again, was the solemn pledge that the civilized world made to humanity after the genocide of the Jews in ...
Why Are Black People Obsessed With The Bible That Was Used To Enslave Them?
For centuries, the Bible has come under sustained attacks from all angles: atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and pseudo-Christians, and yet, the ...
UN To Create Team That Will Probe Syria War Crimes
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish a special team to "collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence" as ...
Bensouda Tells Off Powerful UN Council Over Inaction On Darfur Atrocitie
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda on Tuesday scolded the United Nations for failing to take action in ...
LRA Commander Pleads Not Guilty At ICC
The first former child soldier to appear at the International Criminal Court has pleaded not guilty and told judges he ...
Don’t Always Look To ICC For Adjudication
A human rights lawyer and lecturer at the Queens University, Belfast School of Law in the UK, Dr Yassin Brunger, ...
African Union Threathens To Leave ICC
The long threatened abandonment of the ICC by Africa is under way. Burundi, South Africa and Gambia have announced that ...
Why African States Have Started Leaving the ICC
Until last week, no country had withdrawn from the International Criminal Court. Now, three African states — South Africa, Burundi ...
South Africa Opposition Party Challenges ICC Withdrawal In Court
South Africa's main opposition party has filed papers with the Constitutional Court to challenge the government's decision to pull out ...
South Africa ‘to Withdraw From War Crimes Court’
South Africa has formally begun the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), media reports say. They say ...
Ghanaians Plagued By The Destruction Wrought By Galamsey Can Now Take Their Case To The Icc!
The International Criminal Court (ICC) which was established under a multilateral treaty called the “Rome Statute” (which was adopted on ...