ICCwatch exists to monitor and provide a critique of the International Criminal Court and the broader movement towards transnational governance.
The
experience of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), together
with its Rwandan counterpart (ICTR), have left many real advocates of human rights,
democracy and international peace extremely anxious concerning the activities
of
the ICC.
ICCwatch
will also concern itself with the record and activities of the ICTY
and the
ICTR as they are part and parcel of the same supranationalist phenomenon.
The ICC is
a body that has been set up unilaterally by a group of nations and is not answerable
to any elected parliament or higher authority. It is a law unto itself and
the
western powers that have brought it into being. In
keeping with the politics of transnationalism, the officials of the ICC will enjoy
immunity from prosecution ...
Speech
by Dr. John Laughland
at the ICCwatch debate:
"The International Criminal
Court:
Best hope for mankind or threat to freedom?"
held
at the Ideas Space, Storey's Gate, Westminster - 26 March 2009
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PRESS RELEASE: 17 June 2010
ICC
Conference wants jurisdiction over Wars of Aggression .... except for members
of
UN Security Council!
The Review Conference of the International Criminal Court that concluded on June 12th in Kampala, Uganda voted to give the court potentially the right to prosecute political and military leaders who wage wars of aggression so long as this is sanctioned by the UN Security Council ...
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PRESS RELEASE: 11 June 2010
Anti-colonialist
group celebrates decision
not to sack 'Buffoon' ICC Chief Prosecutor
ICCwatch, a group established to monitor and criticise the work of the International Criminal Court, is celebrating the failure of its Review Conference, which ended on June 11th in Uganda, to remove the chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. There had been speculation in the run-up to the event that a move would be made by some of the representatives of the chief donor countries to replace Mr Ocampo. Even the president of the ICC Assembly of State Parties (the body that oversees the work of the court), Ambassador Christian Wenaweser, has described Mr Ocampo as an "incompetent" and someone who "doesn't know how to write an indictment" ...
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PRESS RELEASE: 10 June 2010
ICC
Chief Prosecutor challenged to account for
'partisan' refusal to take action
against
Museveni regime
The refusal of the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to open an investigation against President Yoweri Museveni and other government officials in relation to alleged atrocities committed by Ugandan government forces demonstrates the court's complete lack of impartiality, ICCwatch contends ...
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PRESS RELEASE: 19 March 2010
WHY
IS BOTSWANA BEHAVING AS
A EUROPEAN PUPPET?
There is growing concern about Botswana’s position regarding the attempts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to indict, arrest and extradite Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir with regard to the conflict in Darfur. The ICC, established in 2002, has increasingly come to be seen as a European Court. The ICC is overwhelmingly dominated and funded by Germany, Britain, France and Italy, Africa’s old colonial masters.
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PRESS
RELEASE: 3 March 2010
THE ICC: HALF A BILLION EUROS, FOR WHAT?
At a time when the European countries who account for over 60% of the ICC budget are facing the prospect of severe cutbacks in state expenditure because of the economic crisis, the spending of their expensive plaything the International Criminal Court is spiraling out of control. In yet another one of his ridiculous statements, the International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo claims that the court is "proud ...
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PRESS
RELEASE: 19 February 2010
ICC
IN NEW THREAT TO HUMAN RIGHTS
Chief
Prosecutor wants to limit freedom of speech
In addition to claiming, without any democratic mandate, global jurisdiction, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor now says he wants the power to indict individuals who engage in 'denial' of alleged international crimes.
Speaking at the United Nations in December 2009, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC's top official, said that: "My office is considering the criminal responsibility of ...
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ICC
and Africa: selective justice
New
African, 1 May 2009
"On 4 March 2009, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, only the second ever sitting president to be so indicted. This has caused outrage and anger among the normally placid African Union and its member countries. AU chairman and Libyan leader Muammar AlGathafi has said it is akin to “new world terrorism”, and that “all developing countries are opposed to the so-called ICC” ... "
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Global
Justice or Global Revenge? The ICC and the Politicization of International Criminal
Justice
Lecture delivered by Prof Dr Hans Köchler at the
World Conference for International Justice - 6 April 2009
"Among many sectors of international civil society the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has raised hopes that, from now on, international crimes could be prosecuted in a comprehensive, credible and consistent manner, in a way completely different from the victor’s justice of post-war tribunals or ad hoc tribunals created by the United Nations Security Council, the supreme executive organ of the world organization, in the years after the end of the Cold War. However, the noble idea of international criminal justice, administered by the ICC as a permanent institution, has been compromised from the outset and in two basic respects ... "
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A
Waltz with al-Bashir
by Joshua Rozenberg - Standpoint,
April 2009
"It
could take two months or two years, but he will face justice." So said the
prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, speaking after he had been granted
a warrant to arrest the president of Sudan. Don't
hold your breath. Past experience shows how much Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor,
is prone to wishful
thinking ... "
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Nothing
international about ICC
by
Linda Heard - Arab News
"In 1998, 120 countries signed a treaty establishing a permanent international criminal court so that “no ruler, no state, no junta and no army anywhere will be able to abuse human rights with impunity”. The principle is great and honorable. A truly international court that protects ordinary citizens from abuse by their own governments and foreign nations is something we should all welcome. But wait...there’s just one problem. The International Criminal Court (ICC) doesn’t hold to its own constitution because, to date, it has held only Africans to account ... "
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Special
Rapporteur Philip Alston calls for International Criminal Court to prosecute in
Kenya
UN press release
"Today, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Philip Alston, concluded his 16 to 25 February 2009 fact-finding mission to Kenya ... "
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Crimes
need to be punished, but is the ICC the right means?
by Brett
D. Schaefer, Radio Free Europe
"Although supporters of the court have a noble purpose, there are a number of reasons to be cautious and concerned about the effect the ICC could have on national sovereignty and politically precarious situations the world over .. "
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