International Criminal Court

In Darfur is where one of the biggest civil wars take place in Africa at the time wiping out around 30,000 people and still is ongoing to this day. In 2003, Africans in Darfur started a revolt against the government of Sudan which lead to the Darfur genocide. The government of Sudan retaliated back by hiring Arab Militia to raid Non Arabic villages. Their purpose was to eliminate all non-Arabic’s from their community. They did this by burning their villages, taking their resources, polluting…

whereas there have only been statements regarding conduct of international organizations since the 1980’s. In International Law, the main criminal responsibility for individuals is dealt with by the International Criminal Court. In 1998, the Rome Statute was established by the ICC and the treaty came into force in 2002, with 124 states having ratified the treaty. (Lecture, Clarke) It established that there are four core international crimes that shall not be…

Regional Criminal Court will be created? Could such a new court harm the interest of the ICC? In my opinion, creating a new court would not help the ICC, rather it would harm its interest in a way that it would totally undermine the judicial powers of the ICC. 11. Can the facts exposed by the ICC help to improve the international community even if the ICC itself doesn 't put many criminals in prison? Even if the facts are exposed by the ICC, it would not help to improve the international…

International law is a broad body that operates within an anarchic system. It contains two sections of law as well as a multitude of organizations that work within the laws. These laws also are enforced, or attempted to be enforced, by international courts in which states hold each other accountable for their actions. International law contains two types, public and private. Public international law is legal norms such as treaties that apply to interactions between states or states and other…

from the International Criminal Court and to describe the circumstances of the case, the parties involved, the alleged crimes, the evidence presented by both prosecution and defense, and the current disposition of the case. The case that I have selected to write about is the case of The Prosecutor VS Simone Gbagbo. The parties involved in this case are Simone Gbargo, her husband President Gbagbo, the citizens of Ivory Coast which is located in west Africa , and finally the International…

You look out your window and see a small child running with a rifle larger than them. You see them put the scope up to their eye and doesn't hesitate to put their finger on the trigger and pull. You see a soldier fall down and the child scurry away. Child soldiers are one of the major society our world has today. These child soldiers should receive amnesty, because they were threatened,drugged, and deserve justice. One reason why these children should receive amnesty is because they were…

I, for one, do not believe in American ethnocentrism especially when it comes to our criminal justice system, as long as there is at least one other country that has produced better results. One example of where the American criminal justice system falls short is the rate of recidivism; based on data gathered by Latimer et al (2005), over half of all criminals who were released from incarceration went back to jail. This is compared to most Scandinavian and a few other European countries that…

after living there at that age. “International Criminal Court (ICC) Article 26 prevents the court from prosecuting anyone under the age of 18, but not because it believes children should be exempt from prosecution for international crimes, ‘but rather that the decision on whether to prosecute should be left to States[countries]…. [The] exclusion of children from the ICC jurisdiction avoided the argument between States[countries] on the minimum age for international crimes.” (Should Child…

Article 2(1). Under 1 U.S.C. § 1 any Act of Congress that uses “person” and “whoever” pertains to corporations. This extends the same protected American rights for individual citizens to any American based company. There have been multiple Supreme Court rulings over the years affirming this. Specifically, this is seen in Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining and Milling Company v. Pennsylvania, 125 U.S. 181 (1888) regarding the fourteenth amendment and in Citizens United v. Federal Election…

(4) humanitarian intervention (class 12) (25 points) Please explain: (a) the arguments why humanitarian intervention in Kosovo was legitimate under international law; While the U.N. Charter does not say anything about humanitarian intervention, Article 2(4) of the Charter does prohibit “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state…” (Cited handout) Some feel that this prohibits any type of humanitarian intervention, wherein one state…