The International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken an important step toward opening its first investigation, the Coalition for an International Criminal Court (Coalition) said today. Following the referral by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni of the situation concerning the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo announced that there… Read More
Dominic Ongwen, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), was convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of 61 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes carried out in northern Uganda between 1 July 2002 and 31 December 2005. Following his conviction, the largest Reparations Order was issued by the ICC,… Read More
This year’s annual Assembly of States Parties (ASP24) to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), will take place from 1-6 December. This session comes at a critical time for the ICC, in a context of intense global scrutiny and backlash. This context is one of sanctions imposed… Read More
Reliable sources indicate that the United States plans to sanction the ICC as an institution in the coming weeks. Civil society worldwide is urgently calling on States Parties to the Rome Statute to prevent these sanctions. Below is a full list of organisations and individuals that have endorsed the… Read More
This is the seventh blog in a series featuring legal representatives and experts in the field of strategic litigation against torture, discussing the strategic impact of cases catalogued in Casebook 1. In this blog post, Kiri Van Lengen-Welty, Interim Lead Lawyer of the Africa Death Penalty Team at Reprieve,… Read More
6 June 2025 – The Global Initiative Against Impunity (GIAI) forcefully condemns the United States government’s decision to impose sanctions on four sitting judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their work on the Palestine and Afghanistan situations. The US is not only targeting specific cases, it is… Read More
