News release: States should maintain their financial commitment to the International Criminal Court (ICC) – the first and only permanent international court capable of trying perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes – the Coalition for the International Criminal Court said today. In a public letter sent prior to the publication of the Court’s 2012 budget proposal, […]
Global Coalition Calls for Arrest of Individuals Wanted for Alleged Crimes Against Humanity Committed in Libya WHAT: On 27 June 2011, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued warrants of arrest for Libyan leader Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar Gaddafi, his son Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan government spokesman, and Abdullah Al-Senussi, Director of Military Intelligence, for […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has threatened to arrest Sudanese president Gen. Omar-El-Bashir after it emerged that president Museveni had invited him to attend his swearing-in ceremony on Thursday at Kololo. According to the Uganda Coalition on ICC coordinator Freda Apio, they have received information that government invited Bashir to Kampala. Opio described this as […]
Commonwealth revises Model Law on implementing the Rome Statute to promote the ending of impunity for perpetrators of worst crimes known to humanity A group of Commonwealth experts has started the work of revising the Commonwealth model law on implementing the Rome Statute to help Commonwealth countries implement the Rome Statute of the International Criminal […]
Antoinette Louw and Anton du Plessis of the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) have described the new International Criminal Court decision to criminalize the use of armed forces against another states as complicated, damaging to the institution and not practical. The crime of aggression seeks to criminalize the use of armed force by one […]
Sudan International Defence Group has told the International Criminal Court to back off African politics and leave Africa to provide its own solutions to the political problems that it faces without any interference from the International Criminal Court. This comes at a time when the ICC’s prosecutor Moreno Ocampo has been demanding increasing powers of […]
Sudan International Defence Group, a Non Governmental Organisation has strongly criticised the International Criminal Court for insisting on arresting the president of Sudan Omar- El -Bashir for alleged genocide charges opened against him in the court. This comes at a time when there is topical debate amongst both the critics and sympathisers of the ICC on whether the ICC […]
President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that indicted Sudan president Gen Omar Bashir will not attend the Africa Union summit scheduled in Kampala later in June 2010. Museveni who was speaking in a meeting with the president of the International Criminal Court Judge Sang-Hyun Song said Bashir who is wanted by the Hague based UN Court […]
As the International Criminal Court Review meeting gets into its fourth in Kampala, the opposition Uganda People’s Congress has asked the world court to critically address issues of governance in Africa. The Uganda People’s Congress’s Special Presidential Envoy, Patrick Mwondha says many African Leaders cling on to power and exploit legal regimes for personal benefit. […]
The President of Uganda, Gen. Yoweri Museveni has denied reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a platform for Europeans to judge African leaders. The Uganda President speaking at the ICC Review Conference opened in Munyonyo Kampala on Monday told delegates that African leaders are the main beneficiaries of the ICC and therefore should […]