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
By Anne Kavutha Mutua, Innovative Lawyer Awardee Anne Kavutha Mutua is a Kenyan human rights lawyer and REDRESS Innovative Lawyers Award recipient. She is the founder and director of The Legal Caravan, an organisation advancing justice and equality through community education, legal capacity-building, and advocacy, particularly on sexual and… Read More
Suspected perpetrators of atrocities in countries such as Iran and Russia are freely coming to the UK to enrol their children in schools, shop at Harrods, and visit their luxury properties in Mayfair, all while UK law prevents their arrest or prosecution, the Government heard yesterday from members of the… 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
