By Justice Hub
Even with a busy team, the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court seems to be advised from anyone and everyone on which new cases to investigate. Whether it is North Korea’s human rights abuses, Russia’s dealings in Georgia or the latest call for US crimes in Afghanistan to come under investigation – Justice Hub has created a series of cartoons relating to these topics. Today we give you some of the best cartoons we published on the ICC’s potential new cases.
ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has hinted that she might take on Russia over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during and after the armed conflict between Georgia and Russia in 2008. She said, “more than six years after the end of the armed conflict, no alleged perpetrator has been prosecuted”.
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The African focus of the International Criminal Court has come in for quite a bit of analysis this week. On the one hand, the court has yet again been accused of being racist, imperialist and only prosecuting Africans. But some scholars say the Court’s problems go deeper than any apparent fixation with one continent. With the ICC being bashed, battered and bruised from all directions, the Weekly Hubble delved into the world of tweets, blogs and op-eds to see where the conversations are heading.
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There is always something about North Korea in the media, whether it was the immortality of Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong Il’s fear of flying or Kim Jong-un’s love of basketball. But within the last couple of months, and last week in particular, the human rights violations taking place in North Korea on a daily basis have been pushed into the limelight.
The UN is just a few weeks away from a vote that could seek to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court. So are we expecting Kim Jong-un to visit The Hague?
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The International Criminal Court is examining the United States for possible war crimes committed by its forces in Afghanistan. In its latest annual report, the Office of the Prosecutor alleges that “members of the U.S. military in Afghanistan used so-called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ against conflict-related detainees. According to the prosecutor, this could amount to the war crimes of “cruel treatment, torture or outrages upon personal dignity as definited under international jurispence”.
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