The International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent international institution established by a treaty that was created to promote the primacy of the law and ensure that the most serious international crimes do not remain unpunished. The ICC concretises an overwhelming hope for the victims who see in it a means to obtain justice and compensation.
The ICC is supplementary to national penal jurisdictions. Its competence and functioning is governed by the clauses of the Rome Statute, agreed to on July 17th 1998 by 120 countries during a conference of The United Nations (UN). The court began to operate on the 1st of July 2002. Since this day, the individuals charged with one of the enunciated crimes in the Statute have to stand their trials in front of the ICC.
ASF strives to ensure two aspects:
- To guarantee the effective implementation of the complementarity principle by giving national jurisdictions the means to act while guaranteeing an efficient cooperation between the nationally concerned institutions and the ICC;
- To guarantee the rights of victims by giving them the means to express themselves in front of the ICC while affirming their legal representations.
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