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International Criminal Court
Cour pénale internationale (French)
‫( المحكمة الجنائية الدولية‬Arabic)
国际刑事法院 (Chinese)
Международный уголовный суд (Russian)
Corte Penal Internacional (Spanish)
Official brand of International Criminal Court Cour pénale internationale (French)
‫( المحكمة الجنائية الدولية‬Arabic) 国际刑事法院 (Chinese) Международный уголовный суд (Russian)
Corte Penal Internacional (Spanish)
Official brand
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Parties and signatories of the Rome Statute
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Seat The Hague, Netherlands
Working languages
English
French
Official languages[1]
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6 languages
Member states 123
Leaders
• President
Piotr Hofmański
• First Vice-President
Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza
• Second Vice-President
Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua
• Prosecutor
Karim Ahmad Khan
• Registrar
Peter Lewis
Establishment
• Rome Statute adopted
17 July 1998
• Entered into force
1 July 2002
Website
www.icc-cpi.int
The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt)[2] is an intergovernmental employer
and global tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the primary and
handiest everlasting global courtroom docket with jurisdiction to prosecute people
for the global crimes of genocide, crimes in opposition to humanity, strugglefare
crimes and the crime of aggression. It is wonderful from the International Court of
Justice, an organ of the United Nations that hears disputes among states. While
praised as a prime step towards justice,[3] and as an innovation in global
regulation and human rights,[4] the ICC has confronted some of criticisms from
governments and civil society, along with objections to its jurisdiction,
accusations of bias and doubts approximately its effectiveness.
History
The premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. The ICC
moved into this constructing in December 2015.
The established order of an global tribunal to choose political leaders accused of
global crimes changed into first proposed throughout the Paris Peace Conference in
1919 following the First World War with the aid of using the Commission of
Responsibilities.[5] The trouble changed into addressed once more at a convention
held in Geneva below the auspices of the League of Nations in 1937, which resulted
withinside the end of the primary conference stipulating the established order of a
everlasting global courtroom docket to strive acts of global terrorism. The
conference changed into signed with the aid of using thirteen states, however none
ratified it and the conference by no means entered into force.[6]
Following the Second World War, the allied powers set up advert hoc tribunals to
prosecute Axis leaders accused of strugglefare crimes. The International Military
Tribunal, which sat in Nuremberg, prosecuted German leaders even as the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo prosecuted Japanese
leaders. In 1948 the United Nations General Assembly first acknowledged the want
for a everlasting global courtroom docket to address atrocities of the sort
prosecuted after World War II.[7] At the request of the General Assembly, the
International Law Commission (ILC) drafted statutes with the aid of using the
early Nineteen Fifties however those had been shelved throughout the Cold War,
which made the established order of an global crook courtroom docket politically
unrealistic.[8]
Benjamin B. Ferencz, an investigator of Nazi strugglefare crimes after World War II
and the Chief Prosecutor for the US Army on the Einsatzgruppen trial, have become a
vocal suggest of the established order of global rule of regulation and of an
global crook courtroom docket. In his ee-e book Defining International Aggression:
The Search for World Peace (1975), he encouraged for the established order of one
of these courtroom docket.[9] Another main proponent changed into Robert Kurt
Woetzel, a German-born professor of global regulation, who co-edited Toward a
Feasible International Criminal Court in 1970 and created the Foundation for the
Establishment of an International Criminal Court in 1971.[10]