ICTJ Says AU Support for Kenya’s ICC Withdrawl Unlikely

From FM News, NAIROBI, Kenya Jan 12 2010- The International Centre for Transitional Justice says it is unlikely that African Union member states will support the call by Kenya to withdraw from the Rome Statute which establishes the International Criminal Court . The Head of the ICTJ Kenya Office Njonjo Mue ruled out a case [...]

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International Security Studies Report Investigates Tensions Between AU and ICC

Read Full Report at: http://www.issafrica.org/pgcontent.php?UID=30455 Intro to Report: This African expert study on the African Union’s (AU) concerns about article 16 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeks to articulate a clearer picture of the law and politics of article 16 deferrals within the context of the AU’s repeated calls to the [...]

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Bashir Visits Kenya in Defiance of ICC Warrant

VOA New Aug 29 2010 Kenya has rejected international criticism over the inclusion of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in Friday’s Promulgation Day festivities.  The east African nation has defended its actions as necessary for regional stability and national security. At a news conference in Nairobi, members of the Kenyan government defended the decision to invite [...]

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ICC Urges Uganda to Arrest Bashir if he Attends AU Talks

Alfred Wandera, Daily Nation , June 9 2010 President of the Assembly of State Parties to the International Criminal Court has insisted that Uganda must arrest Sudan President Omar al-Bashir should he visit the country during the AU summit due in Kampala in July. In a statement released yesterday to media at the ongoing ICC Review Conference [...]

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ICC Review Conference to Consider Crime of Aggression

International Herald Tribune- May 26 2010 On Monday, members of the International Criminal Court gather in Kampala, Uganda, to consider whether to amend the Court’s statute to allow it to exercise jurisdiction over the crime of “aggression.” Previous articles on these pages have argued that the crime is too vague and should be rejected (Michael [...]

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research International Justice In Africa Series

OTJR has recently produced a new debate series on International Justice In Africa: http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/otjr.php?show=currentDebate10. Contributions Include: 11. International Criminal Justice and Non-Western Cultures 12 April 2010 by Tim Kelsall As the ICC Review Conference nears, it is time to consider how best to create a form of international criminal justice that is culturally and socially [...]

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International Court Under Unusual Fire

By Colum Lynch, Washington Post, 30 June 2009 …. At issue is how to strike a balance between the quest for justice in Darfur and the pursuit of a political settlement to end an ongoing civil war in the western region of Sudan. In recent months, African and Arab leaders have said the Argentine lawyer’s [...]

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Kofi Annan Op-Ed: Africa and the International Court

By Kofi Annan, Op-Ed, New York Times, 29 June 2009 Eleven years ago when I opened the Rome conference that led to the founding of the International Criminal Court, I reminded the delegates that the eyes of the victims of past crimes and the potential victims of future ones were fixed firmly upon them. The [...]

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