As Russia's war against Ukraine rages on, the European Union's top justice official says the EU and its partners want to bring all perpetrators of international crimes to justice. "Not only war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, but also the crime of aggression," European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders told the Kyiv Independent, adding that he and his colleagues are still working to determine what an international trial against Russian crimes in Ukraine might look like. While the International Criminal Court has the ability to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, it can only prosecute the crime of aggression, those committed by the highest political and military leadership of a country, for signatories of the ICC, which Russia is not.
institutions can do that by force either. they cannot do it either because they don t have a mandate or because they don t have a mandate or because russia does not want to let them in, so what we can do, we can exert pressure on this. there s going to be united forjustice conference in lviv, and there will be a prosecutor invited, a high ranking leader, prosecutors, international organisations. and different solutions are going to be discussed. sexual violence tribunals, kidnapping of children, crime of aggression, etc, environmental matters. so that s one line of work. secondly, ombudsman is
Overall, the U.S. effort at the International Criminal Court Review Conference in Kampala was a qualified success. The outcome could have been much worse. While the conference adopted the Belgian amendment, creating a precedent for criminalizing the use of additional weapons as war crimes under the Rome Statute, the U.S. did succeed in minimizing the immediate risks to U.S. interests and nationals. The conference also passed a resolution that, if confirmed by future action by the states parties, would grant the ICC jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. Critically, the U.S. was successful in persuading the states parties to restrict the ICC’s jurisdiction over aggression in several significant ways that should help protect U.S. interests. However, the Obama Administration’s modest success in Kampala did little to address ongoing U.S. concerns about politicization of the court and illegitimate claims of ICC jurisdiction over U.S. service members and officials charged with war cr
Ukrainians are still under threat from a war that's about to enter its 11th month, and as more is uncovered about the brutal realities of Russia's invasion, eyes are on the International Criminal Court also known as the ICC. It was originally created to be the global body that delivers justice in instances like these, but now there are questions whether the ICC has the teeth to take on a superpower like Russia. The ICC functions based on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, formed in 1998 and ratified by 60 countries in 2002.