By Benjamin Dürr

A few days before the ICC begins its summer recess at the end of July, the three judges of pre-trial chamber 1 will hand down a major decision in one of the court’s most important cases.

On Thursday…

Truth, justice and democracy are fragile things. Few people understand this better than award-winning Bahraini journalist Nazeeha Saeed.  Saeed was tortured by state officers during the Arab Spring after reporting on the death of a peaceful protestor at the hands…

Researcher Ruth Murambadoro firmly believes that justice is best applied when it has a local flavour. Having conducted extensive research in her native Zimbabwe, Ruth is skeptical that international justice is better than traditional African justice mechanisms at addressing…

What is justice? It’s a simple question, but answering it can be terribly difficult. Yet, throughout 2015, Justice Hub tried to answer this question in a bi-weekly column, entitled My Justice. We talked with lawyers, activists, experts, victims, refugees…

While much of the ICC-watching world’s attention was focused on the Kenyans’ battle over Rule 68, there was another part of the Rome Statute that was being discussed, and finally, scrapped during the last meeting of the states that…

It’s never over until the fat lady sings, as the saying goes. After roughly a week of diplomatic negotiations, side-events and presentations, it took quite a while for the Assembly of States Parties to conclude last Thursday. In fact,…

Ever since Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir landed on South African soil this summer, the International Criminal Court and the South African government have been on a collision course. Last week the two finally collided as South Africa announced its…

Surprise! The members of the International Criminal Court face a sudden budgetary crisis. While gathering to vote for a new judge, it emerged that the new ICC building would be more expensive than the 200 million euros was supposed to…

Dan Plesch is the director of the War Crimes Project at SOAS University London, where the archives of the little-known United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) are stored and being examined. The records are of the thousands of national…

Michael Liu is a lawyer representing victims at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. He lectures in international rights and international humanitarian law at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phom Penh. A short time…

The Assembly of States Parties – the annual meeting of those who have signed up to the ICC – continues in New York. In the second of her blogs from the UN building, Janet Anderson wonders about the competitive nature of…