Bosco Ntaganda March 4, 2021April 22, 2021 by Wairagala Wakabi Experts and Lawyers Propose Collective Reparations and Cash Awards to Ntaganda Victims Experts who were appointed to advise on the nature of reparations in the Bosco Ntaganda case have suggested a cash award to each victim, as well as collective reparations with…
Review of the International Criminal Court January 15, 2021May 11, 2021 by Mariana Pena ICC Judicial Elections Reform: Some Progress but Still a Long Way to Go …government officials as ICC judges. This includes government representatives who had previously engaged in the negotiation of the Rome Statute or other ICC instruments, or who had participated actively in…
Guatemala Trials December 14, 2020December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada The Future of War Crimes Prosecutions in Guatemala …follow their project, Verdad y Justicia en Guatemala, on Twitter. When Alejandro Giammattei was sworn in as president of Guatemala on January 14, 2020, anti-impunity advocates sounded the alarm that,…
Review of the International Criminal Court November 3, 2020May 6, 2021 by Jânia Saldanha and Fauzi Hassan Choukr A Place for a Brazilian National at the ICC: Seeking Publicity and Transparency …Sifuentes. This indicated that the Brazilian government had instead adopted the procedure used to nominated candidates to the highest judicial positions in the country. After we consulted the Federal Senate,…
Review of the International Criminal Court November 3, 2020May 6, 2021 by Ibrahim Tommy Assessing the Competence and Process of Nominating Sierra Leone’s Justice Miatta Samba for Election as ICC Judge …In addition, Justice Samba is a Lecturer in the University of Sierra Leone, where she lectures criminal law and also serves as the current Chairperson of the Sierra Leone Legal…
Review of the International Criminal Court September 30, 2020May 11, 2021 by Nelson Camilo Sanchez Flying Low to Reach New Heights? Colombia Candidate to the International Criminal Court …a list of nominees. Second, rather than learning that a selection process had begun, it was clear that the candidate had already been nominated without any opportunity for public discussion…
Review of the International Criminal Court September 17, 2020May 6, 2021 by Mariana Pena ICC Elections: Civil Society Questionnaires Released …2019, the ASP adopted a resolution introducing adjustments to the election process. Those include advancing the nomination calendar earlier in the year, strengthening the mandate of the Advisory Committee on…
September 15, 2020September 16, 2020 by Angela Mudukuti Searching for the Next ICC Prosecutor: Where to from here? …factors including the applicant’s integrity, track record and any information received from bodies such as: the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission; Advocates Disciplinary Tribunal; Advocates Complaints Commission; Kenya National Human Rights…
Review of the International Criminal Court September 15, 2020May 6, 2021 by Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Bangladesh Withdraws Problematic ICC Judicial Nominee Following Civil Society Engagement …Rome Statute’s standards Mr. Haque, the 19th Chief Justice of Bangladesh, retired on 17 May 2011. He had previously served as a Judge of the Appellate Division and of the…
Bosco Ntaganda August 28, 2020April 22, 2021 by Wairagala Wakabi Ntaganda Appeals Hearing Rescheduled for October …take place later than envisaged in the Chambers Practice Manual, which was amended in 2019 to add specific deadlines for rendering decisions and judgments. In particular, paragraph 90 of the…