International Criminal Justice
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TakeAction for July 2018: Building international justice
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
Canadian world federalists ask supporters to email Foreign Minister Freeland and join a 19 July webinar so that Canada, an early champion of the Court, comes under its new jurisdiction over the crime of aggression.
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The Rome Statute at 20
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
A year of events marking twenty years since the Rome Statute opened in The Hague with a call for diagnosis, not self-congratulation. The Coalition for the International Criminal Court urged governments and civil society to strengthen support for the Court.
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Human rights violations in Libya and the International Criminal Court
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
Libya’s migrant crisis highlights systemic human rights abuses. The ICC’s jurisdiction over crimes against humanity underscores global governance failures.
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COPLA Update Regional governments agree to study proposed criminal court
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2018
Regional justice and security ministers have agreed to study a criminal court against organized crime, in a region with about a third of the world’s murders but 9% of its people. Over 3,000 signatories and 40 institutions already back the proposal.
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Restoring Faith in the UN (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
The UN General Assembly invoked the Uniting for Peace resolution to address Syria’s chemical attacks. The mechanism allows action when the Security Council is blocked by veto power.
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The proposal for a Latin American and Caribbean Criminal Court against Transnational Organized Crime reaches the United Nations General Assembly (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
Argentina’s vice president has taken a proposed regional criminal court against organized crime to the UN General Assembly. The world’s most violent region, with a homicide rate four times the global average, needs cooperation that national governments acting alone cannot provide.
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ICC Update (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
The International Criminal Court continues its investigations into multiple conflicts. Key cases in Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo remain under judicial review.
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ICC activates jurisdiction over crime of aggression (December 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · January 2018
After years of negotiation, states parties agreed to activate the International Criminal Court’s power to prosecute aggression, but on narrower terms than many wanted: the amendments bind only states that have accepted them. Campaigners still called it historic.
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Important meeting for the ICC
World Federalist Movement – Canada · October 2017
Ratification of the Kampala amendments has passed the threshold, leaving a two-thirds vote of states parties to give the ICC power over aggression, while the Coalition presses for independent judges and more women on the bench.
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Current events at the International Criminal Court
World Federalist Movement – Canada · August 2017
International Justice Day marks the adoption of the Rome Statute as a reminder of the fight against impunity; the Coalition for the International Criminal Court marked it with a #WarAfterWar video.
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The Transnational Criminal Law in the Americas conference and further updates on the COPLA campaign (June 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2017
Florencia Gor describes a draft statute for a lean regional court whose judges and prosecutors are nominated and paid for by their states, with experts urging that forfeited assets help cover running costs.
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July 17 is International Justice Day
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2017
Canadians are asked to share the #WarAfterWar video from the Coalition for the International Criminal Court and to email their MP and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland in support of international justice.
